tenia

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

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

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

She was attacked with a severe inflammation of the right eye, which had to be enucleated, and was found full of tenia echinococcus, evidently derived from the dog's tongue.

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