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Definition of Definitive host
1. Noun. The host in which the sexual reproduction of a parasite takes place.
Medical Definition of Definitive host
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Definitive Host
Literary usage of Definitive host
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1918)
"When such a host is of terrestrial habit the definitive host is an insect, when
aquatic ... One or more species of insect may serve as the definitive host; ..."
2. Transactions by Association for Studies in the Conservation of Historic Buildings (Great Britain) (1905)
"Here is illustrated a case of intermediate host—the human being, the dog, cat or
fox, as the case may be, is the definitive host—the fish is the ..."
3. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"As the sexual life takes place in the mosquito, this insect in the definitive
host and man is only the intermediate host. The cycle in the mosquito takes ..."
4. Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology: Including by Edward Rhodes Stitt (1916)
"As the sexual life takes place in the mosquito, this insect in the definitive
host and man is only the intermediate host. The cycle in the mosquito takes ..."
5. Public Health Problems by John Frederick Joseph Sykes (1892)
"From the commencement it enters its definitive host, and its development ends
there; although this happens occasionally, as in the case of ..."
6. The Practical study of malaria and other blood parasites by John William Watson Stephens (1904)
"Thus F. bancrofti has for its definitive host, man, for its intermediary host,
... definitive host, dogs. Intermediary host, Ct. canis (dog-flea). ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... after their transference from .an "intermediate" to a "definitive" host.
This migration is usually accompanied by a more or less complete metamorphosis, ..."
8. Manual of Microbiologic Monitoring of Laboratory Animals edited by Kim Waggie (1994)
"Infection of the definitive host occurs when an infected arthropod is ingested.
Autoinfection or the hatching of eggs and subsequent development of mature ..."
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