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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.


deceptive (iou)



deceptive adjective. E17.
[Old French deceptif, -ive or late Latin deceptivus, from decept-: see DECEPTION, -IVE.]
Apt or tending to deceive; giving a false impression; easily mistaken for something else or as having a different quality.
J. M. Murry Keats' letters have a deceptive spontaneity which invites the mind to pass over them..without pausing to penetrate below the surface. N. Coward It was probably an optical illusion. This half light is very deceptive.
deceptively adverb in such a way as to (be apt to) deceive E19.
deceptiveness noun M19.