NOUN
- parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles
How To Use trichina In A Sentence
- 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 Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870
- A National Institute of Health report published in 1943 found 16.1% of the U. S. human population to be infected with trichinae.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Imagine that in your house, a rat with its fleas, trichinae, rabies, typhus, paratyphoid, the plague, and other diseases is so ill that it dies and falls into a pot of green beans or juicy strawberries. Modern Science in the Bible
- There was an excitement, just then, about the trichina germ in pork, and one of his memoranda says: Mark Twain: A Biography
- 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
- … Others can only be identified with a microscope, such as the majority of protozoa [single-celled animals], certain blood filariae [small larvae of pathogen parasites in the blood vessels], and the trichinae. Modern Science in the Bible
- … Others can only be identified with a microscope, such as the majority of protozoa [single-celled animals], certain blood filariae [small larvae of pathogen parasites in the blood vessels], and the trichinae. Modern Science in the Bible
