taenicide

See also: tænicide

English

Alternative forms

• tænicide (obsolete)
• taeniacide, tenicide, teniacide

Etymology

Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía, “band,ribbon”) + -cida (“killer”), from caedere (“kill”); equivalent to +‎ -cide.

Noun

taenicide (plural taenicides)

1. A medicine that destroys tapeworms.
   • The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia, by Richard Pankhust, in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, XXIV(3):323-334, 1969:

     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...

   • Cocoanut as a Taenicide, in the Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 59, 1890:

     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.

   • An in vivo screening method for anthelmintic activity using Hymenolepis nana var fraterna in mice, by J. Crowley, in Parasitology, 51:339-345 Cambridge University Press, 1961:

     Results obtained with known taenicides and taenifuges are tabled, analysed and compared with their action against the tapeworms of larger animals including man.

Related terms

• taenifuge
• taeniasis
• vermifuge
• anthelmintic

Anagrams

• teniacide