sparganosis

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Noun

sparganosis (plural sparganoses)

  1. (pathology) A parasitic infection caused by the plerocercoid larvae of diphyllobothroid tapeworms in the genus Spirometra.
  2. Alternative form of spargosis (“distention of the breasts with milk”).

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