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
It 111 obviates the possibility of trichina infection absolutely.”
From The Dominant Dollar by Lester Ralph
The muscle of the pig is often infested by a minute animal parasite, or worm, called trichina spiralis.
From A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers by Joseph Chrisman Hutchison
The young produced by each female trichina have been estimated at several hundred.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
It is a credit to the people, though it be an offence in the trichina.
From The Jew by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
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
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
Nuts are free from trichinae, tapeworm and other parasites, as well as the infections due to specific disease.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 by Northern Nut Growers Association
The "embryos" pass from the bowel and reach the voluntary muscles, where they finally become "encapsulated larvae,"—muscle trichinae.
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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