Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several small parasitic nematode worms of the genus Trichinella, especially T. spiralis, that infest the intestines of various mammals and that move through the bloodstream as larvae, becoming encysted in muscles.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An important genus of nematoid worms, typical of the Trichinidæ.
- noun [lowercase; pl. trichinæ (-nē), sometimes
trichinas (-näz).] A worm of this genus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small, slender nematoid worm (
Trichina spiralis ) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals. When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvæ is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
parasitic roundworms , of the genus Trichinella, that infects theintestines and causestrichinosis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It sometimes contains a parasite called trichina, which may be transferred to the human system, producing disease and often death.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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Intestinal trichina that produces young; 2. a young trichina pushes into a muscle; 3. young trichinae; 4. muscle with trichinae in cysts; 5. living; 6. dead trichinae in cysts enlarged.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Intestinal trichina that produces young; 2. a young trichina pushes into a muscle; 3. young trichinae; 4. muscle with trichinae in cysts; 5. living; 6. dead trichinae in cysts enlarged.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Intestinal trichina that produces young; 2. a young trichina pushes into a muscle; 3. young trichinae; 4. muscle with trichinae in cysts; 5. living; 6. dead trichinae in cysts enlarged.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Intestinal trichina that produces young; 2. a young trichina pushes into a muscle; 3. young trichinae; 4. muscle with trichinae in cysts; 5. living; 6. dead trichinae in cysts enlarged.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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There was an excitement, just then, about the trichina germ in pork, and one of his memoranda says:
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Upon awakening, should not the "ridiculous man," having been admitted to an earthly paradise only to act in it as the agent of corruption — "a horrible trichina, a germ of the plague" — finally carry out his initial resolve to kill himself?
A Special Supplement: The Other Dostoevsky Rahv, Philip 1972
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These developed in the alimentary tract of the cockroaches into larvae, which, like the trichina, were distributed into the muscles of the insects where they become encapsulated.
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In the case of the larger parasites, such as the tapeworms and the trichina, there is a direct interchange of disease with animals, certain phases of the life cycle of the organisms are passed in man and others in various of the domestic animals.
Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman
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There is the trichina spiralis, which really exists, although the German pork-butchers denounce the story as a "pig lie;" the ordinary intestinal worm, which disports itself, eel-like, in the Alimentary Canal; and the tape worm, of two varieties, one of which performs its circumlocutory antics in the human stomach, and the other in the government Bureaux at
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