tenia /te·nia/ (te´ne-ah) pl. te´niae taenia.
tenia
te·ni·a (t  n- )n. Variant of taenia. |
tenia
[tē′nē·ə]
1 any anatomic bandlike structure, such as a band of muscle fibers.
2 a bandage or tape.
tenia
pl. teniae [L.] a flat band or strip of soft tissue. A concentration of external longitudinal muscle and elastic fibers, e.g. on the large intestine of horses, pigs and some other species, dividing it into two to five longitudinal segments which are divided further into transient haustra or pockets. See tenia ceci (below).
tenia ceci
one of the four longitudinal muscular bands on the external surface of the cecum of some species, such as the horse, pig and rabbit, that puckers the tract into haustra.
tenia coli
the bands on the surface of the colon of some species. In the horse the thickened bands (tenia libera, tenia mesocolica and tenia omentalis) formed by longitudinal fibers in the tunica muscularis of the colon, the number varying from one to four.
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