a. [f. TRICHINA + -OUS.] Infested with trichinæ; affected with, or of the nature of, trichinosis.
1857. trans. Küchenmeister’s Anim. & Veg. Parasites (Syd. Soc.), I. 353. In pigeons fed with trichinous mole’s flesh, Herbst found many free Trichinæ.
1866. Reader, 10 Feb., 154/3. The town of Hadersleben in the Hartz was the scene of a terrible outbreak of a trichinous disease, resulting in the death of some eighty people.
