medical Definition of neurocysticercosis
plural neurocysticercoses
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: infection of the central nervous system with cysticerci of the pork tapeworm (Taenia solium)
- Neurocysticercosis is the single most important reason why the incidence of epilepsy in the developing world is significantly higher than that in industrialized countries.
- —Julio Sotelo, The New England Journal of Medicine, 15 Jan. 2004
