Definition of "trichina" []

• A small slender parasitic nematode worm (Trichinella spiralis) that infests the intestines of various mammals and whose larvae move through the bloodstream, becoming encysted in muscles. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It sometimes contains a parasite called trichina, which may be transferred to the human system, producing disease and often death."
• "Intestinal trichina that produces young; 2. a young trichina pushes into a muscle; 3. young trichinae; 4. muscle with trichinae in cysts; 5. living; 6. dead trichinae in cysts enlarged."
• "There was an excitement, just then, about the trichina germ in pork, and one of his memoranda says:"