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taenicide

taenicide noun: a medicine that destroys tapeworms.

Noun

taenicide (plural taenicides)

  1. A medicine that destroys tapeworms.
    • 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...The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia, by Richard Pankhust, in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, XXIV(3):323-334, 1969
    • 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.Cocoanut as a Taenicide, in the Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 59, 1890

Forms of taenicide

pluraltaenicides
alternative formtænicide
alternative formtaeniacide
alternative formtenicide
alternative formteniacide

Origin of taenicide

From Latin taenia (“band, ribbon”), from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía), + -cide (“killer”), from Latin -cīda.

Questions about taenicide

What does taenicide mean?
Taenicide means a medicine that destroys tapeworms.
What part of speech is taenicide?
Taenicide is a noun.
What is the plural of taenicide?
The plural of taenicide is taenicides.

Words near taenicide in the dictionary

  1. taenias
  2. taeniases
  3. taeniasis
  4. taeniate
  5. taenicidal
  6. taenicide
  7. taenicides
  8. taenidia
  9. taenidial
  10. taenidium
  11. taeniform

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