Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
mo·nie·zia Pronunciation:
"män-E-'ez-E-& Function:
noun 1 capitalized : a genus of cyclophyllideantapeworms (family Anoplocephalidae) parasitizing the intestine of various ruminants and having a cysticercoid larva in oribatid mites
2 : any tapeworm of the genus
MonieziaMoániez /mon-yA/,
Romain–Louis (1852–1936), French parasitologist. Moniez gained an international reputation in parasitology for his major contributionsin the field. In 1880 he published an important study on the anatomy and histology of the larval forms of the cestodes. Particular attention was paid to the genus
Echinococcus, but the studyalso examined another genus of tapeworms now included in the genus
Moniezia.
