- accidental host
- a host that harbors an organism that is not ordinarily parasitic in the particular species.
Medical dictionary. 2011.
accidental host
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accidental host — a fish serving as a host for a variable length of time for a parasite of another animal. Also called abnormal host … Dictionary of ichthyology
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abnormal host — accidental host … Dictionary of ichthyology
Host desecration — A desecrated host. Host desecration is a form of sacrilege in Christianity (most frequently identified as such in the traditions of Anglicanism, Eastern and Oriental Orthodoxy, Lutheranism, and Roman Catholicism) involving the mistreatment or… … Wikipedia
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host fish — a fish that is the accidental, abnormal, final, intermediate, natural, paratenic, primary, reservoir, secondary, transport and typical (all q.v.) host or environment for a parasite, e.g. a wide variety of crustaceans and nematodes, glochidia of… … Dictionary of ichthyology
accidental parasite — a parasite which has infected an unusual host … Dictionary of ichthyology
accidental myiasis — (ARTHROPODA: Insecta) In Diptera, the presence within a host of a fly larva that is not normally parasitic; pseudomyiasis … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
accidental parasite — A parasite in other than its normal host; an incidental parasite … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
accidental parasite — an organism parasitizing an animal other than the usual host, as Dirofilaria in humans … Medical dictionary
