Taenia

Quick meaning: Taenia is a noun meaning (architecture, Doric architecture) A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order.

Meaning

(architecture, Doric architecture) A band between the frieze and architrave in the Doric order.

More Meanings

1. (anatomy) Any of several ribbon-like bands of tissue.
2. (biology) Any species of the genus Taenia of tapeworms.
3. (historical) A ribbon worn in the hair in ancient Greece.

Example Sentences

The taenia selected will generally be the so-called omental taenia, from which the greater omentum arises.

Taenia and ivy leaves are added by hand. Figure wears a taenia horizontally over her brow and a spray of ivy in her hair.

Each taenia traverses one of the following surfaces of the colon: the anterior surface, the posteroinferior surface, and the posterosuperior surface.

The choroid plexus is attached medially to the body of the fornix by the taenia fornicis and laterally to the thalamus by the taenia choroidea. The taenia is actually a continuation of the ependyma that covers the ventricular cavity over the choroid plexus of the lateral ventricle.

Word Forms

• taenias
• taeniae

Synonyms for taenia

Depending on context, synonyms include fillet, tenia.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fillet, tenia, trabea, targe, pteruge, ampyx.

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