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Medical Definition of Epizoic commensalism
1. Synonym: electrophoresis. 2. A biological association in which one organism is transported by another, as in the attachment of the eggs of Dermatobia hominis, a human and cattle botfly, to the legs of a mosquito, which transports them to the human, cattle, or other host in which the botfly larvae can develop. Synonym: epizoic commensalism, phoresy. Origin: G. Phoresis, a being borne (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epizoic Commensalism
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