Glossary for Taeniasis

• Abdominal pain: A condition which is characterized by the sensation of pain that is located in the abdomen
• Appetite changes: Inappropriately reduced or increased appetite.
• Cysticercosis: An infectious disease caused by the pork tapeworm Taenia solium. If the larvae are ingested then a mild or asymptomatic tapeworm infection occurs. However, ingested eggs pass into the bloodstream where they can then enter various tissues and form the cysts that characterize cysticercosis.
• Nausea: The queasy feeling of nausea and often also vomiting.
• Neurocysticercosis: Brain/CNS infection with the tapeworm Cysticercosis
• Pruritus: The sensation of itch
• Weakness: Symptoms causing weakness of the body
• Weals: Drug reaction, allergy, infection, lupus, overactive thyroid, polycythemia, rheumatic fever, blisters, amyloidosis, progesterone increase, Still's Disease, pregnancy, vasculitis
• Weight loss: Loss of body weight.

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