trichiniasis

1. 1.

   infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted

   Synonymstrichinosismyositis trichinosa

   Broadermyositisinfestation

Other forms of trichiniasis

plural

trichiniasises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about trichiniasis

What does trichiniasis mean?

trichiniasis means "infestation by trichina larvae that are transmitted by eating inadequately cooked meat (especially pork); larvae migrate from the intestinal tract to the muscles where they become encysted".

How many syllables are in trichiniasis?

trichiniasis has 5 syllables: tri-chi-ni-a-sis. The stress falls on "ni".

What is another word for trichiniasis?

Close synonyms include trichinosis, myositis trichinosa. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is trichiniasis a common word?

trichiniasis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.