Crossword clues for trichina
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trichina \Tri*chi"na\ (-n[.a]), n.; pl. Trichin[ae]. [NL., fr. Gr. ? hairy, made of hair, fr. tri`x, tricho`s, hair.] (Zo["o]l.) 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 larv[ae] 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.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several parasitic roundworms, of the genus (taxlink Trichinella genus noshow=1), that infects the intestines and causes trichinosis
WordNet
n. parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles [syn: Trichinella spiralis]
[also: trichinae (pl)]
Usage examples of "trichina".
Like a foul trichina, like an atom of plague infecting whole countries, so I infected that whole happy and previously sinless earth with myself.
They should be well fried, in order to destroy the little living parasites, called Trichinae which sometimes infest this kind of meat.
Twelve trichinae have been found in a section of human muscle only one-twelfth of an inch square and one-fifth of an inch in thickness.
The early symptoms of trichinae are very uncertain, being the same as those of some other disease.
When the trichinae pass into the muscles, they occasion great suffering.
Nearly every case of trichinae, which has been brought to the notice of the profession, has been attributed to the eating of raw or improperly cooked pork.
Nuts are free from trichinae, tapeworm and other parasites, as well as the infections due to specific disease.
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.