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Measly
The word measly can refer to measles, and, thence, to spotty and, thence, to something that is of little value. In medicine, the measly tapeworm is the pork tapeworm (T. solium) which can be contracted through eating measly pork (pork infected with the larval form of T. solium).
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Pertaining to pork or beef infected with the cysticerci of the tapeworms Taenia solium or Taenia saginata, respectively.

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mea·sly 'mēz-(ə-)lē adj, mea·sli·er; -est
1) infected with measles
2 a) containing larval tapeworms
b) infected with trichinae

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mea·sly (meґzle) of meat, having a speckled appearance because of the presence of cysticerci.

Medical dictionary. 2011.