Taenicide vs Taeniasis - What's the difference?
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A medicine that destroys tapeworms.
* The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia'', by Richard Pankhust, in the ''Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences , XXIV(3):323-334, 1969:
* Cocoanut as a Taenicide'', in the ''Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal , Volume 59, 1890:
* 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:
(pathology) An infection of tapeworms of the genus Taenia that does not usually cause any disease.
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Taenicide is a related term of taeniasis.
As nouns the difference between taenicide and taeniasis
is that taenicide is a medicine that destroys tapeworms while taeniasis is (pathology) an infection of tapeworms of the genus taenia that does not usually cause any disease.taenicide
English
Alternative forms
* * tenicide, teniacideNoun
(en noun)- 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...
- 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.
- Results obtained with known taenicides and taenifuges are tabled, analysed and compared with their action against the tapeworms of larger animals including man.
Anagrams
*taeniasis
English
(wikipedia taeniasis)Alternative forms
* * teniasisNoun
(taeniases)- Taeniasis is a form of tapeworm infection which is caused by tapeworms of the genius Taenia.
www.stanford.edu page on Taeniasis
- Taeniasis is a tapeworm (cestode) infection acquired by the ingestion of raw or undercooked meat of infected animals.