pork tapeworm

English

Noun

pork tapeworm (plural pork tapeworms)

1. A species of parasitic flatworm, Taenia solium, which uses pigs as an intermediate host.
   • 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 91:

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