pork tapeworm

noun

A species of parasitic flatworm, Taenia solium, which uses pigs as an intermediate host.

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nounpork tapeworm (plural pork tapeworms)

plural pork tapeworms

  1. A species of parasitic flatworm, Taenia solium, which uses pigs as an intermediate host.

    When larvae of Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm, penetrate the human central nervous system they cause neurocysticercosis, a particularly nasty form of epilepsy.

    2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 91
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