‖ trichina Zool.
(ˈtrɪkɪnə, trɪˈkaɪnə)
Pl. -æ. Also in anglicized form (or from Fr.) trichine.
[mod.L. Trichina (whence F. trichine), f. Gr. τρίχῐνος adj. ‘of hair’, f. θρίξ, τριχ- hair.]
A genus of minute parasitic nematoid worms; esp. the species T. spiralis, which infests man and various animals, the adult inhabiting the intestinal tract, and the larvæ migrating to and becoming encysted in the muscular tissue, causing trichinosis.
| 1835 Trans. Zool. Soc. I. 323, I have seen in..the diseased muscle, groups of minute oblong vesicles..these may..be germs of the Trichina. 1858 Copland Dict. Pract. Med. III. 1399 The Trichina having found a resting place, a cyst closely adhering to the tissues is formed round it. 1875 tr. von Ziemssen's Cycl. Med. III. 651 To exterminate the rat is to exterminate trichinæ. |
| attrib. 1857 tr. Küchenmeister's Anim. & Veg. Parasites (Syd. Soc.) I. 351 The spot to which it reached during the trichina-life. [1865 Even. Standard 12 Dec. 5/2 The trichine disease continues its ravages at Hadersleben.] 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 1051 Examination of the rats of different countries proves the extreme liability of this rodent to trichina infection. 1901 Mem. & Lett. Sir J. Paget iii. 58 Epidemics of this trichina-fever. |
Hence
ˈtrichinal a., of or pertaining to the trichina (in
quot. 1857
spec. the larva);
triˈchinatous a. erroneous formation for
trichinous;
‖ trichiniasis (
trɪkɪˈnaɪəsɪs) [
mod.L.:
cf. elephantiasis]
= trichinosis;
ˈtrichinid, a worm of the family
Trichinidæ;
trichiniferous (
trɪkɪˈnɪfərəs)
a. [
-ferous], containing or conveying trichinæ;
trichinize (
ˈtrɪkɪnaɪz)
v., trans. to infect with trichinæ (hence
ˌtrichiniˈzation,
ˈtrichinized ppl. a.);
trichinoid (
ˈtrɪkɪnɔɪd)
a., resembling or allied to
Trichina.
| 1857 tr. Küchenmeister's Anim. & Veg. Parasites (Syd. Soc.) I. 346 It is almost impossible to determine during the *Trichinal existence, to which of the two sexes the mature animal would belong. 1885 A. W. Blyth in Leisure Hour Jan. 25/2 This ham..was discovered to be swarming with..trichinal cysts. |
| 1870 Nicholson Man. Zool. xxvi. I. 152 If..a portion of *trichinatous muscle be eaten by a warm-blooded vertebrate, and so introduced into the alimentary canal, an immediate development of young Trichinae is the result. |
| 1854–67 C. A. Harris Dict. Med. Terminol. s.v. Trichina, The disease..called *Trichiniasis or Trichina disease. 1871 Sir T. Watson Lect. Princ. & Pract. Physic (ed. 5) II. 636 Within a month after the dinner 20 of these persons had died of, and more than 80 were then suffering from, ‘trichiniasis’. |
| 1869 E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 195 The eating of raw *trichiniferous pork is the chief cause of the propagation of the entozoon to man. |
| 1864 N. Syd. Soc. Year-bk. Med. 175 Experiments with picro-nitrate of potash on *trichinised rabbits. 1866 Standard 19 Feb., The cat and the dog were both trichinised experimentally. |