Path. [mod.L., f. TRICHIN-A + -OSIS.] A disease caused by the introduction of trichinæ into the alimentary canal, and the migration of their embryos or larvæ into the muscular tissue; characterized by digestive disturbance, slight fever, swelling, pain, and lameness in the muscles, etc. Also attrib.
1866. Daily Tel., 18 Jan., 5/2. Learned professors have declared that a large proportion of the flesh of swine sold in the markets of Berlin … is poisoned by a dreadful distemper called trichinosis—by myriads of trichinæ. Ibid. A congress of savants and medical men to confer on the great trichinosis question.
1890. B. A. Whitelegge, Hygiene & Public Health, ix. 211. Trichinosis in man is generally due to the consumption of the imperfectly cooked flesh of a pig suffering from the disease.
Hence Trichinosed ppl. a., infected with trichinosis, or with trichinæ; Trichinotic a., pertaining or relating to trichinosis.
1887. Daily News, 3 Feb. The rejection by Italy and Germany of whole cargoes of American trichinosed bacon has glutted with it the French market.
1889. Lancet, 4 May, 901/2. The very long duration of the disease is a slight argument also against the trichinotic view.
