taenicide

== English == === Alternative forms === tænicide (obsolete) taeniacide, tenicide, teniacide === Etymology === From Latin taenia (“band, ribbon”), from Ancient Greek ταινία (tainía), +‎ -cide (“killer”), from Latin -cīda. === Noun === taenicide (plural taenicides) 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 === References === === Anagrams === teniacide