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definitive host in American English the organism on or in which a parasite lives in the adult stage definitive host in American EnglishnounZoology the host in or on which a parasite spends the sexual stage of its life cycle Word origin [1900–05 ]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: cathode-ray tube, geopolitics, hookup, hormone, hydroplaneExamples of 'definitive host' in a sentencedefinitive host The domestic and wild canids are the definitive host of the parasite.Toxoplasma gondii has a complex two-host life-cycle between intermediate host and definitive host.Usually, the parasite migrates to the right kidney of the definitive host.Malaria transmission occurs because of interaction between the agent, the definitive host and intermediate hosts (humans).Furthermore, parasite prevalence in intermediate hosts appeared to increase with taxonomic specificity in definitive host use.Their life-cycle includes an invertebrate hematophagous vector as a definitive host and vertebrates as intermediate hosts.Humans are accidental host infected by eating food or water contaminated with oocysts or sporocysts of an infected definitive host. |