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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Taenia \T[ae]"ni*a\, n.; pl. {T[ae]ni[ae]}. [L., a ribbon, a
   tapeworm.]
   1. (Zo["o]l.) A genus of intestinal worms which includes the
      common tapeworms of man. See {Tapeworm}.

   2. (Anat.) A band; a structural line; -- applied to several
      bands and lines of nervous matter in the brain.

   3. (Arch.) The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric
      frieze, separating it from the architrave.

Bladder \Blad"der\, n. [OE. bladder, bleddre, AS. bl?dre,
   bl?ddre; akin to Icel. bla?ra, SW. bl["a]ddra, Dan. bl[ae]re,
   D. blaar, OHG. bl[=a]tara the bladder in the body of animals,
   G. blatter blister, bustule; all fr. the same root as AS.
   bl[=a]wan, E. blow, to puff. See {Blow} to puff.]
   1. (Anat.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the
      receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the
      gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary
      bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and
      inflated with air.

   2. Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or
      a thin, watery fluid.

   3. (Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

   4. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. ``To swim with
      bladders of philosophy.'' --Rochester.

   {Bladder nut}, or {Bladder tree} (Bot.), a genus of plants
      ({Staphylea}) with bladderlike seed pods.

   {Bladder pod} (Bot.), a genus of low herbs ({Vesicaria}) with
      inflated seed pods.

   {Bladdor senna} (Bot.), a genus of shrubs ({Colutea}), with
      membranaceous, inflated pods.

   {Bladder worm} (Zo["o]l.), the larva of any species of
      tapeworm ({T[ae]nia}), found in the flesh or other parts
      of animals. See {Measle}, {Cysticercus}.

   {Bladder wrack} (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the
      seacoast ({Fucus nodosus} and {F. vesiculosus}) -- called
      also {bladder tangle}. See {Wrack}.



   2. (Veter. Med.) A disease of cattle and swine in which the
      flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of
      the tapeworm.

   3. A disease of trees. [Obs.]

   4. pl. (Zo["o]l.) The larv[ae] of any tapeworm ({T[ae]nia})
      in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called
      also {bladder worms}.

Source : WordNet®

taenia
     n 1: a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband
          [syn: {tenia}, {fillet}]
     2: tapeworms parasitic in humans which uses the pig as its
        intermediate host
     [also: {taeniae} (pl)]
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