trichina

American  

[trih-kahy-nuh] / trɪˈkaɪ nə /

noun

• trichinae
  plural

1. a nematode, Trichinella spiralis, the adults of which live in the intestine and produce larvae that encyst in the muscle tissue, especially in pigs, rats, and humans.

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trichina British  

/ trɪˈkaɪnə /

noun

1. a parasitic nematode worm, Trichinella spiralis , occurring in the intestines of pigs, rats, and man and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscle

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• trichinae
  plural

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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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Example Sentences

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trichina trichinae

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

So we were liable more or less to trichina and insomnia, but still we were free from sewer gas and poll tax.

From Remarks by Bill Nye

It is a credit to the people, though it be an offence in the trichina.

From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski

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

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

Thereafter the doctor tries to build up the patient's constitution so it can kill off the trichinae.

From Time Magazine Archive

The infection in man is regarded as more or less accidental, the lower animals being the normal hosts for trichinae.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Auxiliary Laboratory Stand, for the examination of trichinae and for searching plate cultures.

From Microscopes and Accessory Apparatus Catalogue No. 40 by Ernst Leitz

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