Taenicide
Origin
Ancient Greek ταινία (tainia, "band,ribbon") + -cida ("killer"), from caedere ("kill"); equivalent to + -cide.
Full definition of taenicide
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.