Crossword-Solution: TAENIA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Taenia | n. | A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. See Tapeworm. |
| Taenia | n. | A band; a structural line; -- applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain. |
| Taenia | n. | The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TAENIA | anagram | EATINA |
We have 15 clues for the answer “TAENIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ancient headband or fillet | 1 answer |
| DORIC fillet bottom of frieze | 1 answer |
| FRIEZE band | 1 answer |
| Greek headband. | 1 answer |
| Headband worn by ancient Greeks. | 1 answer |
| tapeworms parasitic in humans which uses the pig as its intermediate host | 1 answer |
| RIBBON-like part | 2 answers |
| FILLET at bottom of frieze | 3 answers |
| Architectural band | 4 answers |
| Tapeworm | 4 answers |
| CESTODA | 5 answers |
| Headband | 9 answers |
| band architectural | 10 answers |
| A NARROW HEADBAND OR STRIP OF RIBBON WORN AS A HEADBAND | 11 answers |
| ribbon | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with TAENIA (5)
Starting from 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.
The older reports, according to which the taenia solium (i.e., generally the taenia saginata) grew to such lengths as 40, 50, 60, and even as much as 800 yards, are generally regarded as erroneous.
The peculiar effects of a tapeworm are exaggerated appetite and thirst, nausea, headaches, vertigo, ocular symptoms, cardiac palpitation, and Mursinna has even observed a case of trismus, or lockjaw, due to taenia solium.
They have not learned that error is got out of the minds that cherish it, as the taenia is removed from the body, one joint, or a few joints at a time, for the most part, rarely the whole evil at once.
The face of this member is plain, except that along the upper edge there runs a slightly projecting flat band called a TAENIA, with regulae and guttae at equal intervals; these last are best considered in connection with the frieze.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1950–1987).