| 释义 |
fish tapeworm
noun
: a large pseudophyllidean tapeworm (Diphyllobothrium latum) as an adult infesting the human intestine and sometimes associated with a peculiar macrocytic anemia resembling pernicious anemia and having its early development in a copepod and intermediate stages in freshwater fishes, from which it is transmitted to man or other fish-eating mammals when raw fish is eaten |