taenia
['ti:niә]
n. 装饰头带, 带

[医] 带, 绦虫



taenia
taeniae
[ noun ]

1. a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband

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

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Taenia \T[ae]"ni*a\, n.; pl. {T[ae]ni[ae]}. [L., a ribbon, a
tapeworm.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) 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.