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1. An intestinal and tissue infection of humans and other mammals caused by the nematode Trichinella spiralis: Trichinosis 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.
2. Etymology: "A disease caused by trichinae", 1866, coined by Bernhard Rupprecht (1815-77) from trichina (1835), from Modern Latin, genus name of certain minute parasitic worms, from Greek trikhine, feminine of trikhinos, "of or like hair", from thrix (genitive of trikhos) "hair".
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tricho-, trich-, -tricha, -trichia, -trichan, -trichic, -trichosis, -trichous, -thrix, -trichum, -trichy +
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(also known as trichinellosis, it is caused by eating raw or undercooked pork and wild game products)