a disease characterized by nausea, fever, diarrhoea, and swelling of the muscles, caused by ingestion of pork infected with trichina larvae
Also called: trichiniasis (ˌtrɪkɪˈnaɪəsɪs)
Word origin
C19: from New Latin trichina
Examples of 'trichiniasis' in a sentence
trichiniasis
An 86-year-old male patient presented with the complaints of abdominal pain, trichiniasis, nausea and vomiting.
Ender Özer, İbrahim Aydın, Ahmet Pergel, Ahmet Fikret Yücel, Dursun Ali Şahin, İbrahimŞehitoğlu 2015, 'A Rare Cause of Acute Abdomen: Idiopathic Isolated Cecal Necrosis', Haseki Tıp Bültenihttp://www.hasekidergisi.com/article_8707/A-Rare-Cause-Of-Acute-Abdomen-Idiopathic-Isolated-Cecal-Necrosis. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)