tenia
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teniae
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Like the great prince of navigators in the fifteenth century, he was a man ``who had the taste for great things''—``qui tenia gusto en cosas grandes.''
From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 by Andrew Dickson White
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
Delisle mentions a young person who during a whole year passed pieces of ascarides and tenia, during which time he could not endure music.
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
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
Attached to the teniae coli are small, fat-filled sacs of visceral peritoneum called epiploic appendages.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Kisel has recorded a fatal case of anemia, in a child of six, dependent on teniae.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
David speaks of the expulsion of five teniae by the ingestion of a quantity of sweet wine.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Greenhow mentions the occurrence of two teniae mediocanellata.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
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