- a variation of taenia.
tenia
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teniae
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She bore her indisposition, which was attended with excruciating pains?—"risum tenia tis"—with angelic resignation.
From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan
This view is supported by Estudillo, who saw the region in 1819 and says that the spot "... donde Tape tenia su rancheria" was 24 leagues south of Cheneches and 25 leagues north of Notonto.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Sherburne F. Cook
According to modern writers the famous Viennese collection of helminths contains chains of tenia saginata 24 feet long.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
She was attacked with a severe inflammation of the right eye, which had to be enucleated, and was found full of tenia echinococcus, evidently derived from the dog's tongue.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
I. Distinguishes animation from mechanism; solitary and sexual; buds and bulbs; aphises; tenia; volvox; polypus; oyster; eel; hermaphrodites.
From The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes by Erasmus Darwin
Attached to the teniae coli are small, fat-filled sacs of visceral peritoneum called epiploic appendages.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Although the rectum and anal canal have neither teniae coli nor haustra, they do have well-developed layers of muscularis that create the strong contractions needed for defecation.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Laveran reports a case in which 23 teniae were expelled in the same day.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Fereol speaks of a case of vertigo, accompanied with epileptic convulsions, which was caused by teniae.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Twiggs describes a case in which a tapeworm 36 feet long was expelled from a child of four; and Fabre mentions the expulsion of eight teniae from a child.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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