Definitions for Trichina

Trichina tri·chi·na

Spelling: [trih-kahy-nuh]
IPA: /trɪˈkaɪ nə/

Trichina is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 223 anagrams from letters in Trichina (achiinrt).

Definitions for Trichina

noun

  1. a nematode, Trichinella spiralis, the adults of which live in the intestine and produce larvae that encyst in the muscle tissue, especially in pigs, rats, and humans.

Origin of Trichina

1825-35; New Latin Greek tríchina, noun use of feminine of tríchinos of hair. See trich-, -ine1

Examples for Trichina

The trichina is a nematode worm, and not an insect, as it was at first called.

Vinegar eels, the horsehair worm, the pork worm or trichina and the dread hookworm are examples.

Nor was the full story of the trichina made out for a long time after Owen's discovery.

In an allied family and genus (trichina) is placed one of the most dangerous of human parasites, the trichina spiralis.

It is the same with the tænia, or tape-worm, with the trichina, or fine hair-worm.

Some species are of microscopic size; as the trichina worm, which is about 1/20 in.

In the pig, the trichina, if present, may always be found in the muscles of the eye.

The pork worm or trichina, however, is a parasite which may cause serious injury.

The trichina capsules commonly measure about one-fifth of a line long, and the coiled worm within is scarcely a half-line long.

Nearly 50,000 trichina were counted in an infected leg of pork (Rupprecht).

Word Value for Trichina
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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