trichina
Americannoun
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trichinae
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of trichina
1825–35; < New Latin < Greek tríchina, noun use of feminine of tríchinos of hair. See trich-, -ine 1
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Supporters claim that gamma-ray exposure offers an alternative to controversial pesticides, fumigants and preservatives, and protects human health by killing parasites like trichina worms in pork and bacteria like salmonella, which causes food poisoning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many persons have died in Germany and a few in England from a disease produced by eating pork containing a small internal parasite termed trichina spiralis.
From The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock by Sir Charles Alexander Cameron
It sometimes contains a parasite called trichina, which may be transferred to the human system, producing disease and often death.
From Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele
It is a credit to the people, though it be an offence in the trichina.
From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
Not only do bacteria become innocuous through cooking, but various parasites, as trichina and tapeworm, are destroyed, although some organisms can live at a comparatively high temperature.
From Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value by Harry Snyder
The infection in man is regarded as more or less accidental, the lower animals being the normal hosts for trichinae.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thereafter the doctor tries to build up the patient's constitution so it can kill off the trichinae.
From Time Magazine Archive
Worms have been found in the heart; and it is quite possible that in cases of trichinosis, specimens of the trichinae may be discovered anywhere in the line of cardiac or lymphatic circulation.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
Some of these cases were doubtless instances of echinococcus, trichinae, or the result of rectovesical fistula, but Riverius mentions an instance in which, after drinking water containing worms, a person passed worms in the urine.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle
The trichinae may live within the muscles for an indefinite period.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
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