tenia

[tee-nee-uh]

noun

plural

teniae 

1. a variant of taenia.

tenia

/ ˈtiːnɪə /

noun

1. the US spelling of taenia

Example Sentences

The first parasite I experimented with was a beef tapeworm, tenia saginata.

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She bore her indisposition, which was attended with excruciating pains?—"risum tenia tis"—with angelic resignation.

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I. Distinguishes animation from mechanism; solitary and sexual; buds and bulbs; aphises; tenia; volvox; polypus; oyster; eel; hermaphrodites.

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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.

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According to modern writers the famous Viennese collection of helminths contains chains of tenia saginata 24 feet long.

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