triquinosis

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɾikiˈnosis/ [t̪ɾi.kiˈno.sis]
• Rhymes: -osis
• Syllabification: tri‧qui‧no‧sis

Noun

triquinosis f (uncountable)

1. trichinosis
   • 2015 December, “¿Cuán seguro es comer carne poco cocida?”, in El Nacional‎^[1]:

     Y ha habido casos en los que la carne de cerdo poco hecha ha transmitido triquinosis, un parásito casi erradicado de la cadena alimentaria en los países desarrollados.

     And there have been cases where undercooked pork has transmitted trichinosis, a parasite nearly eradicated from the food chain in developed countries.

Further reading

• “triquinosis”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28