tenia

[ tee-nee-uh ]

noun

, plural te·ni·ae [tee, -nee-ee].

1. a variant of taenia.

tenia

/ ˈtiːnɪə /

noun

1. the US spelling of taenia

Example Sentences

The first parasite I experimented with was a beef tapeworm, tenia saginata.

From BBC

She bore her indisposition, which was attended with excruciating pains?—"risum tenia tis"—with angelic resignation.

From Project Gutenberg

I. Distinguishes animation from mechanism; solitary and sexual; buds and bulbs; aphises; tenia; volvox; polypus; oyster; eel; hermaphrodites.

From Project Gutenberg

According to modern writers the famous Viennese collection of helminths contains chains of tenia saginata 24 feet long.

From Project Gutenberg

Palm mentions the fact of four tapeworms existing in one person; and Mongeal has made observations of a number of cases in which several teniae existed simultaneously in the stomach.

From Project Gutenberg