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primary host — definitive host (the fish in which a parasite passes it adult or reproductive phase. Also called final host) … Dictionary of ichthyology
primary host — see definitive host … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
primary host — noun : definitive host … Useful english dictionary
Host (biology) — In biology, a host is an organism that harbors a parasite, or a mutual or commensal symbiont, typically providing nourishment and shelter. In botany, a host plant is one that supplies food resources and substrate for certain insects or other… … Wikipedia
Primary Stages Theater — Primary Stages was founded in l984 by Casey Childs as a New York State non profit theater company with the mission of producing new plays and fostering the artistic development of emerging and established playwrights.In 2004, Primary Stages moved … Wikipedia
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
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
primary — (frank) pathogen Any organism that causes a disease in the host by direct interaction with or infection of the host … Dictionary of microbiology
primary infection — noun : the initial infection of a host by a pathogen that has completed a resting or dormant period … Useful english dictionary
alternate host — noun : a host belonging to a species different from the one usually inhabited by a parasite * * * Ecol. a host, other than the usual or primary host, on which a parasitic organism can sustain itself. * * * alternate host noun (biology) One of the … Useful english dictionary
