tenia
Americannoun
PLURAL
teniaenoun
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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.
From Project Gutenberg
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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