A disease that is due to eating raw or undercooked pork or wild game that is infected with Trichinella spiralis larvae. Initial symptoms are abdominal discomfort, nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, fatigue, and fever. Next usually come headaches, fevers, chills, cough, eye swelling, aching joints, muscle pains, itchy skin, diarrhea, and constipation. With [..]

"disease caused by trichinae," 1864, coined by Bernhard Rupprecht (1815-1877) by 1864 from trichina (1835), Modern Latin, genus name of the minute, hair-like parasitic worms that cause it, f [..]

Trichinosis is an intestinal and tissue infection of humans and other mammals. Infection occurs through the consumption of infected meat (usually domestic pork) that carries the encysted larvae of T. [..]

A disease resulting from infection by Trichinella spiralis (Nematoda) larvae by eating undercooked meat; characterized by muscular pain, fever, edema, and other symptoms. trichocysts

(n) infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted

Infection with a roundworm caused by consumption of larvae in undercooked pork or other infected meat.

Disease caused by a spiral worm found in swine (19thC)

An Infection with Trichinella. It is caused by Eating raw or undercooked Meat that is infected with Larvae of nematode worms Trichinella genus. All members of the Trichinella genus can infect Human in [..]

A disease due to infection with TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS. It is caused by eating undercooked meat, usually pork.

A parasitic disease; it is caused by consuming Trichinella larvae in undercooked pork.