Usually means: Parasitic tapeworms causing cystic disease.
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  1. echinococci: Merriam-Webster
  2. echinococci: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. echinococci: Vocabulary.com
  4. echinococci: Wordnik
  5. echinococci: Wiktionary
  6. echinococci: Dictionary.com
  7. echinococci: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. echinococci: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. echinococci: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. echinococci: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (echinococcus)

noun:  (zoology) A parasite of humans and of many domestic and wild animals, 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.
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