| tenebrae | The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days. Origin: L, pl, darkness. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| tenebrio | A genus of beetles which infests grain products. Its larva is called mealworm. (12 Dec 1998) |
| tenectomy | Resection of part of a tendon. Synonym: tenonectomy. Origin: G. Tenon, tendon, + ektome, excision (05 Mar 2000) |
| teneral | <zoology> Of, pertaining to, or designating, a condition assumed by the imago of certain Neuroptera, after exclusion from the pupa. In this state the insect is soft, and has not fully attained its mature colouring. Origin: L. Tener, -eris, tender, delicate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tenesmic | <medicine> Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterised by tenesmus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tenesmus | <symptom> Straining, especially ineffectual and painful straining at stool or in urination. Origin: L., Gr. Teinesmos (13 Jan 1998) |
| tenia | 1. Any anatomical bandlike structure. Synonym: taenia. Origin: L. Fr. G. Tainia, band, tape, a tapeworm (05 Mar 2000) |
| tenia choroidea | The somewhat thickened line along which a choroid membrane or plexus is attached to the rim of a brain ventricle. Synonym: tenia telae. Teniae coli, the three bands in which the longitudinal muscular fibres of the large intestine, except the rectum, are collected; these are the mesocolic tenia, situated at the place corresponding to the mesenteric attachment; the free tenia, opposite the mesocolic tenia; and the omental tenia, at the place corresponding to the site of adhesion of the greater omentum to the transverse colon. Synonym: bands of colon, colic teniae, teniae of Valsalva. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tenia fimbriae | The line of attachment of the choroid plexus of the lateral ventricle to the fornix. Synonym: tenia fimbriae, tenia of the fornix. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tenia fornicis | The line of attachment of the choroid plexus of the lateral ventricle to the fornix. Synonym: tenia fimbriae, tenia of the fornix. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tenia hippocampi | A narrow sharp-edged crest of white fibre matter, continuous with the alveus hippocampi, attached to the medial border of the hippocampus; composed of efferent fibres of the hippocampus that form the fornix, fibres of the hippocampal commissure, and septohippocampal fibres. Synonym: corpus fimbriatum, tenia hippocampi. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tenia libera | See: teniae coli. Synonym: tenia libera. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tenia mesocolica | See: teniae coli. Synonym: tenia mesocolica. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tenia of fourth ventricle | The line of attachment of the choroid roof to the rim of the fourth ventricle. Synonym: tenia of fourth ventricle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tenia of the fornix | The line of attachment of the choroid plexus of the lateral ventricle to the fornix. Synonym: tenia fimbriae, tenia of the fornix. (05 Mar 2000) |