neurocysticercosis
English
editEtymology
editFrom neuro- + cysticercosis.
Pronunciation
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editneurocysticercosis (usually uncountable, plural neurocysticercoses)
- (medicine) The presence of larval cysts of Taenia solium, the pork tapeworm, in the parenchyma of the brain, often associated with seizures and sometimes fatal.