Definition: 'Taenia Solium'
Taenia solium
Type: Term
Definitions:
1. the pork, armed, or solitary tapeworm of humans, acquired by eating insufficiently cooked pork infected with Cysticercus cellulosae; hatching of ova within the human intestine may result in establishment of cysticerci in human tissues, resulting in cysticercosis.
Synonyms:
Taenia armata, Taenia dentata
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