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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as trichinosis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Med.) Trichinosis.

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  • noun medicine trichinosis

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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

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