Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Infestation with echinococci.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Infection with Echinococcus, the larval stage of a tapeworm which lives in the dog; hydatid disease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Med.) infestation with echinococci (tapeworms). An infection with the larval form is called
hydatid disease .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pathology A potentially
fatal parasitic disease ofanimals andhumans , caused by the Echinococcustapeworm .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun infestation with larval echinococci (tapeworms)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It was the first chance for Mongolian experts (clinicians, pathologists, parasitologists, biologists, epidemiologists, veterinarians and others working on echinococcosis) joined together.
BioMed Central - Latest articles A Gurbadam 2010
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The report, which covers 15 zoonotic infections, also provides data on other zoonoses, such as brucellosis, bovine tuberculosis and rabies, and the two parasitic zoonoses trichinellosis and echinococcosis.
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It was the first chance for Mongolian experts (clinicians, pathologists, parasitologists, biologists, epidemiologists, veterinarians and others working on echinococcosis) joined together.
BioMed Central - Latest articles A Gurbadam 2010
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Alveolar echinococcosis was suspected chronic malignant hepatic tumors or abscesses.
BioMed Central - Latest articles A Gurbadam 2010
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Increase in the number of cystic echinococcosis (CE) cases year by year was stressed.
BioMed Central - Latest articles A Gurbadam 2010
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Alveolar echinococcosis was suspected chronic malignant hepatic tumors or abscesses.
BioMed Central - Latest articles A Gurbadam 2010
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Main discussion was as to how to introduce modern diagnostic tools for pre-surgical diagnosis, how to establish the national system for the data base of echinococcosis with the establishment of a network system by experts from different areas.
BioMed Central - Latest articles A Gurbadam 2010
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Increase in the number of cystic echinococcosis (CE) cases year by year was stressed.
BioMed Central - Latest articles A Gurbadam 2010
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Main discussion was as to how to introduce modern diagnostic tools for pre-surgical diagnosis, how to establish the national system for the data base of echinococcosis with the establishment of a network system by experts from different areas.
BioMed Central - Latest articles A Gurbadam 2010
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The fox tapeworm is spread to humans in canine feces and can cause a fatal disease of the liver known as alveolar echinococcosis.
Scientific American 2009
bilby commented on the word echinococcosis
You could get bored in the middle of writing this word and just doodle circles and it would probably still turn out fine.
May 1, 2022