TRICHINA

[tri.chi.na] n, pl -nae also -nas [NL, fr. Gk trichinos made of hair, fr. trich-, thrix hair] (1857): a small slender nematode worm (Trichinella spiralis) that in the larval state is parasitic in the voluntary muscles of flesh-eating mammals (as humans and swine) -- tri.chi.nal adj