trichinosis
pronunciation
How to pronounce trichinosis in British English:
UK ['trɪkɪ'nəʊsɪs]
How to pronounce trichinosis in American English:
US [ˌtrɪkə'noʊsɪs]
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- 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
Word Origin
- trichinosis (n.)
- "disease caused by trichinae," 1864, coined by Bernhard Rupprecht (1815-1877) by 1864 from trichina (1835), Modern Latin, genus name of the minute, hair-like parasitic worms that cause it, from Greek trikhine, fem. of trikhinos "of or like hair," from thrix (genitive trikhos) "hair."
Example
- 1. Abstract : trichinosis is a zoonotic parasitic diseases .
- 2. Analysis on misdiagnosis of 37 trichinosis cases .
- 3. People have usually believed the former , claiming that because pig meat was so easily prone to spoiling and trichinosis , the consequent human diseases led them to avoid the meat .
- 4. A experimental study on the diagnosis of trichinosis by indirect immunoperoxidase technique .
- 5. Conclusion : the characteristic pathology changes in the muscular tissues supply useful basic bata for pathology examination in trichinosis .