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taenia
[ tee-nee-uh ]
noun
- Classical Antiquity. a headband or fillet.
- Architecture. (on a Doric entablature) a fillet or band separating the frieze from the architrave.
- Anatomy. a ribbonlike structure, as certain bands of white nerve fibers in the brain.
- any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, parasitic in humans and other mammals.
taenia
/ ˈtiːnɪə /
noun
- (in ancient Greece) a narrow fillet or headband for the hair
- architect the fillet between the architrave and frieze of a Doric entablature
- anatomy any bandlike structure or part
- any tapeworm of the genus Taenia, such as T. soleum, a parasite of man that uses the pig as its intermediate host
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Example Sentences
Each peduncle joins, along with the taenia semicircularis, the anterior pillar of the fornix of its own side.
A male head in high relief, wearing a taenia, is slightly bent forwards to the right.
He wears a taenia, and there are traces of drapery which passed over the shoulder.
A portrait figure of an old man, whose head is bound with a taenia, reclines on a couch with a two-handled cup in his left hand.
Not only ascarides, but also tape and thread worms (Taenia and Filaria), are to be constantly contended with.
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