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paratenic host (medicine)


paratenic 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.


stenter (iou)



stenter noun & verb. M16.
[from STENT verb1 + -ER1.]
A. noun.
A person who sets up (a tent). Scot. Only in M16.
= TENTER noun1 1. Now also, a machine through which fabric is carried mechanically while under sideways tension. E18.
b. verb trans. Stretch (fabric) by means of a stenter. L19.