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noun

Taenia n. (pl. taeniae)

(Zool.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm.

(Anat.) A band; a structural line; applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.

(Arch.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.

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... the second the echinus with its annulets, and the third the necking. The diminution of the column should be the same as described for Ionic columns in the third book. The height of the architrave, including taenia and guttae, is one module, and of the taenia, one seventh of a module. The guttae, extending as wide as the triglyphs and beneath the taenia, should hang down for one sixth of a module, including ...

— Ten Books on Architecture • Vitruvius

... the species commonly found in America and all the countries of Europe, except France, Russia, and Switzerland. In France, both species are found, but the taenia lata seems to be indigenous ...

— The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English • R. V. Pierce

... this eminently characteristic fact—the RIGHT OF INCREASE—we shall pursue the old serpent through his coils; we shall count the murderous entwinings of this frightful taenia, whose head, with its thousand suckers, is always hidden from the sword of its most violent enemies, though abandoning to them immense fragments of its body. It requires something more than courage to subdue this monster. It was written that it should not die until a proletaire, armed with a magic ...

— What is Property? - An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government • P. J. Proudhon

... innocent virgin believing herself damned for the pleasure infused in her by the spirit! And the wife in her marriage-bed tortured by his attacks, withstanding him, and yet again feeling him within her!—a fearful feeling known to those who have suffered from taenia. You feel in yourself a double life; you trace the monster's movements, now boisterous, anon soft and waving, and therein the more troublesome, as making you fancy yourself on the sea. Then you rush off in wild dismay, terrified at yourself, longing ...

— La Sorciere: The Witch of the Middle Ages • Jules Michelet

Words linked to "Taenia" : tapeworm, fillet, headband, tenia, cestode, genus Taenia