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Echinococcus

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals forming compound cysts or tumors called hydatid cysts in various organs but especially in the liver and lungs which often cause death It is the larval stage of the Taelignia echinococcus a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog The adult form is not found in man

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