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taenicide en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin taenia (“band, ribbon”), from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía), + -cide (“killer”), from Latin -cīda.

Meanings

1. A medicine that destroys tapeworms.
   • If we are not mistaken, this is one of the popular Russian remedies...It is not necessary to take cathartics, simply eating a whole cocoanut being sufficient. Cocoanut as a Taenicide, in the Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 59, 1890
   • Results obtained with known taenicides and taenifuges are tabled, analysed and compared with their action against the tapeworms of larger animals including man. An in vivo screening method for anthelmintic activity using Hymenolepis nana var fraterna in mice, by J. Crowley, in Parasitology, 51:339-345 Cambridge University Press, 1961
   • The practice in Ethiopia of eating raw meat...has given rise...to a high incidence of taenia, or tapeworm. ... The commonest traditional taenicide was the blood-red flower of the kosso tree... The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia, by Richard Pankhust, in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, XXIV(3):323-334, 1969

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Relateds

vermifuge · taenifuge · anthelmintic · taeniasis