"taenicide" meaning in English

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          "ref": "The Traditional Taenicides of Ethiopia, by Richard Pankhust, in the Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, XXIV(3):323-334, 1969",
          "text": "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..."
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          "ref": "Cocoanut as a Taenicide, in the Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 59, 1890",
          "text": "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."
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          "ref": "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",
          "text": "Results obtained with known taenicides and taenifuges are tabled, analysed and compared with their action against the tapeworms of larger animals including man."
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        "A medicine that destroys tapeworms."
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          "tapeworm",
          "tapeworm"
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        {
          "word": "taenifuge"
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        {
          "word": "taeniasis"
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          "word": "vermifuge"
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          "word": "anthelmintic"
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          "word": "tænicide"
        },
        {
          "word": "taeniacide"
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        {
          "word": "tenicide"
        },
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          "word": "teniacide"
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      "word": "taenifuge"
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        },
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          "ref": "Cocoanut as a Taenicide, in the Saint Louis Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 59, 1890",
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        },
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