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beef tapeworm

noun

Medical Definition of BEEF TAPEWORM

:  an unarmed tapeworm of the genus Taenia (T. saginata) that infests the human intestine as an adult, has a cysticercus larva that develops in cattle, and is contracted through ingestion of the larva in raw or rare beef

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