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noun
A disease characterized by headache, chills, fever, and soreness of muscles, caused by the presence of nematodes of genus Trichinella in the intestines and muscular tissues.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: trichiniasis, myositis trichinosa
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: myositis, infestation
History
From New Latin trichinōsis. By surface analysis, trichina + -osis.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
