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Habitat (medicine)


habitat
<ecology, zoology> The physical location or type of environment in which an organism or biological population lives or occurs.

The place occupied by an organism, population, or community. It is the physical part of the community structure in which an organism finds its home, and includes the sum total of all the environmental conditions present in the specific place occupied by an organism. Often a habitat is defined to include a whole community of organisms.