tenia
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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 Cook, Sherburne F.
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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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 Hogan, William
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 Darwin, Erasmus
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
Even the new-born have exhibited signs of teniae, and Haussmann has discussed this subject.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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 Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
David speaks of the expulsion of five teniae by the ingestion of a quantity of sweet wine.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
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