Medical Definition of Teniasis
1. Presence of a tapeworm in the intestine. Somatic teniasis, invasion of the body by the cysticercus of a tenioid worm. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teniasis
Literary usage of Teniasis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Food Poisoning by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1917)
"teniasis Various tapeworm or cestode infections are contracted by eating meat
containing the parasite. Particular species of tapeworm usually infest the ..."
2. Food Poisoning by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1917)
"teniasis Various tapeworm or cestode infections are contracted by eating meat
containing the parasite. Particular species of tapeworm usually infest the ..."
3. The Clinical pathology of the blood of domesticated animals by Samuel Howard Burnett (1917)
"teniasis.—In cases of Taenia solium, T. saginata and T. nana in man, Bucklers
found the eosinophiles increased (5 to 10%). ..."
4. The Clinical Pathology of the Blood of Domesticated Animals by Samuel Howard Burnett (1908)
"teniasis. In cases of Taenia solium, T. saginata and T. nana in man, Bucklers
found the eosinophiles increased (5 to 10%). ..."
5. Borderline Diseases: A Study of Medical Diagnosis with Especial Reference to by Josiah Newhall Hall (1915)
"III: teniasis: INFECTION BY CESTODES The tapeworms cause disease in man in two
wholly different ways: First, by infecting his intestinal tract as a tapeworm ..."
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