Teniacide vs Taenicide - What's the difference?
teniacide | taenicide | Alternative forms |
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:
Teniacide is an alternative form of taenicide.
As nouns the difference between teniacide and taenicide
is that teniacide is while taenicide is a medicine that destroys tapeworms.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.