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Definition of Intermediate host
1. Noun. A host that is used by a parasite in the course of its life cycle.
Medical Definition of Intermediate host
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Intermediate Host
Literary usage of Intermediate host
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"It is evident that the acquisition of an intermediate host is an adaptation which
is vastly beneficial from the point of view of the parasite, ..."
2. The Copepodologist's Cabinet: A Biographical and Bibliographical History by David M. Damkaer (2002)
"Mating takes place on the intermediate host, after which the males die. The females
swim freely again in search of the final host. ..."
3. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1920)
"This second host is not a true intermediate host as there is no further development
of the parasite, which is simply protected by the host, and does a host ..."
4. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"This takes place when the intermediate host is eaten by some species other than
the final host; the larva is set free by digestion but immediately ..."
5. Handbook of Geographical and Historical Pathology by August Hirsch (1885)
"... THE MOSQUITO ITS intermediate host; PERIODICITY OP THE PHENOMENA. These facts
having been ascertained (and in part confirmed and amplified ..."
6. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"The young larva? are transmitted, either still enclosed within the egg or embryonic
covering, to the intermediate host or more rarely they are transferred ..."
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