trichinelliasis Med.
(trɪkɪnɛˈlaɪəsɪs)
[f. mod.L. Trichinella, generic name superseding trichina (f. L. -ella: see -el2) + -iasis.]
= trichinosis.
| 1907 Allbutt's Syst. Med. (ed. 2) II. ii. 914 The girl had evidently died, not of enteric fever as was supposed, but of trichinelliasis. 1930 E. C. Faust Human Helminthol. xxiii. 327 The disease trichinelliasis or, more familiarly, trichinosis, may be divided into three stages. 1977 Schmidt & Roberts Foundations of Parasitol. xxiii. 424/2 Trichinella spiralis is the only species in the family..and is responsible for the disease variously known as trichinosis, trichiniasis, or trichinelliasis. |
Also trichineˈllosis [-osis], in the same sense.
| 1958 Excerpta Medica IV. 479, 209 wild rats..and 21 domestic rats..were examined for trichinellosis. 1965 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 13 Sept. 182/1 So-called meat inspection..provides no mechanism for detection of trichinellosis. 1971 P. C. C. Garnham Progress in Parasitol. v. 64 In the Mau Mau emergency the youth went wild on Mount Kenya, ignoring the ancient tribal taboo regarding the consumption of the flesh of certain animals and devoured uncooked wild pig: a severe outbreak of trichinellosis, with many deaths, was the result. |