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Parasite
"Parasite" in a Sentence (25 examples)
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
You're nothing more than a social parasite!
The alien is a small intelligent multidimensional parasite that attaches to the host's nervous system.
Hookworm is a worm, a parasite of man, that sticks to the small intestine.
Tom is a parasite who lives at the expense of others who earn money through hard work.
Astylus, their master's son, arrived on horse-back, and a fawning parasite, who always accompanied him, rode by his side.
Tom ate a salad contaminated with the cyclospora parasite.
The report warns that the parasite Plasmodium falciparum — which causes the most lethal form of human malaria — is becoming resistant to the first-choice drug, DHA-piperaquine, in parts of Southeast Asia, with patients seeing a failure rate of 50 percent or more.
The report says urgent action is now needed to eliminate falciparum malaria from the region — otherwise the resistant strains of the parasite could further spread to other parts of Asia and Africa, potentially causing global health emergency.
Tom is a parasite.
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Lice, fleas, ticks, and mites are widely spread parasites.
...and the mistletoe crept round many of the oaks—that pleasant parasite, whose associations belong rather to the hearth and lighted hall than to its native branches.
It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
He lacks, however, even the basic Dr. Kildare lingo about medical issues. For instance, he regularly misidentifies poppers as amyl nitrate, instead of amyl nitrite — two forms of heart medicine with different affects ^([sic]). Salmonella, a bacteria, is not usually classified as a parasite. And he mistakenly writes, "lenti means slow" in the lentiviruses. ("Lenti" means lens-shaped, biologists classify by structure, not by behavior.)
Select a disease class Virus: Fastest evolution, Most affected by environment, Bonus to infectivity Bacteria: Medium evolution, Normally affected by environment, Bonus to drug resistance Parasite: Slowest evolution, Least affected by environment, Low visibility
Any germs or parasites on the surface of the meat that you could conceivably wash off are gonna die as soon as you cook it, so don't bother washing it.
A royalist who publicly called for a military intervention to protect the parasite monarchy.
Of all the corrupting effects of wealth there is none worse than this, that it makes the wealthy (and their parasites) think in some way divine, or at least a lovely character of the mind, what is in truth nothing but their power of luxurious living.
Her golden tresses shade / The bosom's stainless pride, / Curling like tendrils of the parasite / Around a marble column.
[…] parasiting and aerial refueling as range-extension measures. Second, parasiting would be exorbitantly expensive, because each parasite bomber would need its own carrier. Two bombers could be serviced by a single tanker, however,[…]
parasite display
parasite stand
parasite unit
... parasiting upon her husband, taking everything and giving nothing in return, this woman had brought her husband to a condition of serious ill health because of his grief, anxiety, and despair over her failure.
... parasiting Google, but as is the case with Microsoft's street art advertisements, the relationship is not a stable one. Using a Google map platform to track his work means sharing his location data with the corporation.
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