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taenia

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Definitions

  1. tapeworms parasitic in humans which uses the pig as its intermediate host

Word origin

From Latin taenia, from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “ribbon, tape”).

Used in a sentence

  • Taenia and ivy leaves are added by hand. Figure wears a taenia horizontally over her brow and a spray of ivy in her hair.
  • Each taenia traverses one of the following surfaces of the colon: the anterior surface, the posteroinferior surface, and the posterosuperior surface.
  • The taenia selected will generally be the so-called omental taenia, from which the greater omentum arises.

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