tricho-, trich-, -tricha, -trichia, -trichan, -trichic, -trichosis, -trichous, -thrix, -trichum, -trichy +

A small slender nematode worm that infests the intestines of meat-eating mammals and whose larvae form cysts in skeletal muscle.

An infection of the trichina may develop from undercooked meat. Symptoms include diarrhea, nausea, and fever. Latin name Trichinella spiralis.

A small, slender nematoid worm (Trichina spiralis) which, in the larval state, is parasitic, often in immense numbers, in the voluntary muscles of man, the hog, and many other animals.

When insufficiently cooked meat containing the larvae is swallowed by man, they are liberated and rapidly become adult, pair, and the ovoviviparous females produce in a short time large numbers of young which find their way into the muscles, either directly, or indirectly by means of the blood. Their presence in the muscles and the intestines in large numbers produces trichinosis.

A genus of parasitic nematodes of the phylum Nematoda: The members of Trichinella can cause trichinosisin man and carnivores.

Containing trichina worms: Such microscopic parasitic worms, like inTrichiniferous meat, like pork, cannot be easily destroyed by cooking or salting.

Infection with trichina worms: In Lynn's book on medicine, she read about trichinization in which an organism can become infected with parasitic nematode worms.

To infect with trichinae: In the article, Joe read that some pork was trichinized, or was infested with parasitic nematode worms.

An excessive fear of the disease caused by the nematode, trichina: Because Catherine had trichinophobia, she was sure to properly prepare and cook her meals containing pork until the pork was no longer pink, thus killing any roundworms that perhaps might be present.

A magnifying glass used to inspect meat suspected of being infected with encysted trichinae (nematode worm): Nancy saw a documentary about the use of a trichinoscope as a device to detect larval trichinae in meat microscopically

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".

A special report about Trichinosis.

Infected with trichina worms: Trichinous organisms can be those that are infected with Trichinella (nematode worms) that are parasites of mankind, hogs, rats, dogs, cats, and many other mammals.

1. In mineralogy A, a small, dark, needle-shaped crystal: A trichite can be a kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common in obsidian.
2.In zoology, a delicate, hairlike siliceous (containing silica) spicule (slender, sharp-pointed), found in certain sponges: A trichite is a sheaf, one of the small sheaflike fascicles (bundles) of slender setae characteristic of certain sponges.

Inflammation of the hair bulbs: Trichitis can be the infection of the eyelashes, including pain and soreness.

A genus of cutlassfishes comprising the "hairtails": Hairtails are a species of marine fishes of the genus Trichiurus; especially, Trichiurus Lepterus of Europe and America. They are long and like a band, with a slender, pointed tail.

A feeling or sensation of having one's hair touched or of having a hair in the mouth or in an eye: Helen experienced trichoaesthesia when she felt a hair in her mouth.

A lack of sensation when the hair is stimulated, touched, or moved: Because of her trichoanesthesia, Irene was not aware of what the hairdresser was doing unless she could watch in a mirror.

The filamentous or threadlike bacteria: Trichobacteria include those forms which possess lash-like appendages that are used for locomotion..