Taenia

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.

II. Taenia ·noun A band; a structural line;

— applied to several bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.

III. Taenia ·noun A genus of intestinal worms which includes the common tapeworms of man. ·see Tapeworm.

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