n, pl  -no*ses   :  infestation with or disease caused by trichinae contracted by eating raw or insufficiently cooked infested food and esp. pork and marked initially by colicky pains, nausea, and diarrhea and later by muscular pain, dyspnea, fever, and edema - called also trichinelliasis , richiniasis  .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  trich·i·ni·a·sis 
 
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