PORK TAPEWORM


Meaning of PORK TAPEWORM in English

Known formally as Taenia solium, contracted from undercooked or measly pork (pork infected with the larval forms of the tapeworm). Can grow to be 3-6 feet (0.9-1.8 m) long in the human intestine. Also known as the armed tapeworm and the measly tapeworm.

English dictionary of medicine.      Английский словарь медицины.