TAPEWORM INFECTION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Intestinal infection by a species of parasitic tapeworm; usually the result of eating inadequately cooked meat or fish

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("tapeworm infection" is a kind of...):

infection (the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms)

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