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Trichina

noun
(pl. trichinae)
1.
Parasitic nematode occurring in the intestines of pigs and rats and human beings and producing larvae that form cysts in skeletal muscles.  Synonym: Trichinella spiralis.






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"Trichina" Quotes from Famous Books



... little specks of extraneous matter, which, when taken to the professor of comparative anatomy, Richard Owen, were ascertained, with the aid of the microscope, to be the cocoon of a minute and hitherto unknown insect. Owen named the insect Trichina spiralis. After the discovery was published it transpired that similar specks had been observed by several earlier investigators, but no one had previously suspected or, at any rate, demonstrated their nature. ...
— A History of Science, Volume 4(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams



Words linked to "Trichina" :   nematode worm, roundworm, nematode



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