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taenicide

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See also: tænicide

English

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Etymology

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From Latin taenia (band, ribbon), from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía), +‎ -cide (killer), from Latin -cīda.[1]

Noun

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taenicide (plural taenicides)

  1. 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:
      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...
    • Cocoanut as a Taenicide, in the Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 59, 1890:
      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.
    • 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:
      Results obtained with known taenicides and taenifuges are tabled, analysed and compared with their action against the tapeworms of larger animals including man.
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References

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  1. ^ taenicide, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

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