trichinosis Path.
(trɪkɪˈnəʊsɪs)
[mod.L., f. trichin-a + -osis.]
A disease caused by the introduction of trichinæ into the alimentary canal, and the migration of their embryos or larvæ into the muscular tissue; characterized by digestive disturbance, slight fever, swelling, pain, and lameness in the muscles, etc. Also attrib.
| 1866 Daily Tel. 18 Jan. 5/2 Learned professors have declared that a large proportion of the flesh of swine sold in the markets of Berlin..is poisoned by a dreadful distemper called trichinosis—by myriads of trichinæ. Ibid., A congress of savants and medical men to confer on the great trichinosis question. 1890 B. A. Whitelegge Hygiene & Public Health ix. 211 Trichinosis in man is generally due to the consumption of the imperfectly cooked flesh of a pig suffering from the disease. |
Hence trichinosed (ˈtrɪkɪnəʊzd) ppl. a., infected with trichinosis, or with trichinæ; trichinotic (-ˈɒtɪk) a., pertaining or relating to trichinosis.
| 1881 Daily News 3 Feb., The rejection by Italy and Germany of whole cargoes of American trichinosed bacon has glutted with it the French market. 1889 Lancet 4 May 901/2 The very long duration of the disease is a slight argument also against the trichinotic view. |