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noun
Taenia  n.  (pl. taeniae)  
1.
(Zool.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.
2.
(Anat.) A band; a structural line; applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.
3.
(Arch.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.





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"Taenia" Quotes from Famous Books



... which still hang over the phenomena of the nervous system. He is steeped too deeply in the base nomenclature of the antique school, and too indolent to question the import of Pons, Commissure, Island, Taenia, Nates, Testes, Cornu, Hippocamp, Thalamus, Vermes, Arbor Vitro, Respiratory Tract, Ganglia of Increase, and all such phrase of unmeaning sound, ever to be productive of lucid interpretation of the cerebro-spinal ens. Custom alone sanctions his ...
— Surgical Anatomy • Joseph Maclise


Words linked to "Taenia" :   genus Taenia, cestode, fillet, tenia


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