echinococcus

About 0.12 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A parasite of humans and of many domestic and wild animals, thought to be the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus, that forms compound cysts or tumours (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs.

Similar words

multilocular echinostomatid echinorhynchid echinozoan cysticerce echiuroid echiuran echinidan echinorhinid eunicid

Often followed by

granulosus multilocularis cysts cyst disease of is and in

Word family

echinococci