Lexic.us

Medical Definition of Endoparasitism

1. 1. Invasion and multiplication of microorganisms in body tissues, which may be clinically unapparent or result in local cellular injury due to competitive metabolism, toxins, intracellular replication or antigen antibody response. The infection may remain localised, subclinical and temporary if the bodys defensive mechanisms are effective. A local infection may persist and spread by extension to become an acute, subacute or chronic clinical infection or disease state. A local infection may also become systemic when the microorganisms gain access to the lymphatic or vascular system. 2. An infectious disease. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Endoparasitism

Literary usage of Endoparasitism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Economic Entomology by Entomological Society of America, American Association of Economic Entomologists (1910)
"Combined simple ecto- and endoparasitism with one survivor — 3 examples. Fatal cannibal superparasitism — 34 examples. Fatal mixed superparasitism involving ..."

2. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1918)
"... their existence extends the knowledge of the extent of eye-spots and of the types of degeneration that have occurred under conditions of endoparasitism. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1903)
"of reproductive activity the organism may be less differentiated structurally than at preceding stages, as in some extreme cases of endoparasitism. ..."

4. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1906)
"... short time by the bridge of communication before the reciprocal conjugation of the micronuclei. "VVe have referred to the endoparasitism of two genera. ..."

5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"... and to illustrate this case of endoparasitism, singular among the Annelida J. Among the many deep-sea animals which the currents bring into the Gulf of ..."

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