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Definition of Trichinosis

1. Noun. 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.

Definition of Trichinosis

1. n. The disease produced by the presence of trichinæ in the muscles and intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, and symptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.

Definition of Trichinosis

1. Noun. (pathology) A disease characterized by headache, chills, fever, and soreness of muscles, caused by the presence of trichinae in the intestines and muscular tissues. ¹

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Definition of Trichinosis

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Medical Definition of Trichinosis

1. Trichinosis is an intestinal and tissue infection of humans and other mammals caused by the nematode Trichinella spiralis. Infection occurs through the consumption of infected meat (usually domestic pork) that carries the encysted larvae of T. Spiralis. Common symptoms include: diarrhoea, muscle pains, fever, dehydration and swelling around the eyes. Myocarditis (heart infection), pneumonitis (lung infection) and encephalitis (brain infection) can also occur in advanced cases. (19 Jan 1998)

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Literary usage of Trichinosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"trichinosis and typhoid fever have frequently been associated, but most commonly the trichinosis has been in the patient and the typhoid fever in the mind ..."

2. The Popular Science MonthlyScience (1893)
"trichinosis on a British school-ship (Misc.), 18 : 574. ... Report on trichinosis. G: Sut- ton, MD, 8 : 377. See also Insects. Parish, Woodbine (Death) ..."

3. Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology by August Hirsch (1885)
"As regards the occurrence of trichinosis in India, I find only a brief statement that cases of it had been seen in Calcutta. In China, according to an ..."

4. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"trichinosis The three most important hosts for the Trichinella spiralis are man ... Hence, a well-directed public health campaign against trichinosis should ..."

5. A Text-book of practical medicine, with particular reference to physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1883)
"In the present edition I have decided to treat of trichinosis among the infectious diseases, ... The origin of trichinosis from a contagium vivum is proved. ..."

6. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Lewellys Franklin Barker, Milton Howard Fussell, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"Howard (WT), Jr. Report of a fatal case of trichinosis without eosinophilia, but viA large numbers of eosinophilic cells in the muscle lesions ..."

7. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1902)
"THE first case of trichinosis in which eosinophilia was recorded was in Prof. Osler's wards at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, studied by Thomas R. Brown.1 The ..."

8. A Text-book of practical medicine v. 2: With Particular Reference to by Felix von Niemeyer (1874)
"In the present edition I have decided to treat of trichinosis among the infectious diseases, ... The origin of trichinosis from a contagium vivum is proved. ..."

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