Tapeworm vs Taenicide - What's the difference?
tapeworm | taenicide |
(countable) Any parasitical worm of the class Cestoda, which infest the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.
(countable) A (broad fish tapeworm), .
(uncountable) Infestation by tapeworms.
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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:
As nouns the difference between tapeworm and taenicide
is that tapeworm is (countable) any parasitical worm of the class cestoda, which infest the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle while taenicide is a medicine that destroys tapeworms.tapeworm
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(wikipedia)Noun
Synonyms
* (any species of class Cestoda) cestodeAnagrams
*taenicide
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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.
