Echinorhynchus
noun
Echi·no·rhyn·chus
| \ i-ˌkī-nə-ˈriŋ-kəs
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Medical Definition of Echinorhynchus
: a genus (the type of the family Echinorhynchidae) of small cylindrical acanthocephalan worms that are parasitic in various vertebrates