| intermediate host | <epidemiology> See vector. (05 Dec 1998) |
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| transport host | An intermediate host in which no development of the parasite occurs, although its presence may be required as an essential link in the completion of the parasite's life cycle; e.g., the successive fish host's that carry the plerocercoid of Diphyllobothrium latum, the broad fish tapeworm, to larger food fish eventually eaten by man or other final host's. Synonym: transport host. (05 Mar 2000) |
| type host | <zoology> The host species with which the name-bearing type of a nominal species or subspecies was associated. (09 Jan 1998) |
| final host | <epidemiology> The host in which a parasite reproduces sexually. (05 Dec 1998) |