Taenicide
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Taenicide is a noun meaning A medicine that destroys tapeworms.
Meaning
A medicine that destroys tapeworms.
Example Sentences
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.
Results obtained with known taenicides and taenifuges are tabled, analysed and compared with their action against the tapeworms of larger animals including man.
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.
Word Forms
- taenicides
- taeniacide
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include taeniacide, tenicide, teniacide, taenifuge, taeniafuge, vermifuge.
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