cysticercosis
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cysticercosis
First recorded in 1900–05; cysticerc(us) + -osis
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Once swallowed, the eggs find their way into skeletal muscles or other tissues, where they form cysts and cause the disease known as cysticercosis.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
Eating undercooked pork cannot directly give a person cysticercosis.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2024
Booker’s bill also targets illnesses such as mosquito-borne dengue fever, toxocariasis, cysticercosis, Chagas disease, toxoplasmosis and trichomoniasis.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2019
On recent Friday mornings just over the last month, the clinic’s director has treated a young woman with cutaneous leishmaniasis, three people with brain lesions from cysticercosis and a middle-aged man with Chagas disease.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2012
Sarika Bansal I explore market-based solutions to global health problems What do schistosomiasis, cysticercosis, and lymphatic filariasis have in common?
From Forbes ● Nov. 9, 2011
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
