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parasite

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-006335

An animal or plant that gets nutrients by living on or in an organism of another species. A complete parasite gets all of its nutrients from the host organism, but a semi-parasite gets only some of its nutrients from the host.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-006335
FieldOncology and biomedicine
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-006335",
  "term": "parasite",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "An animal or plant that gets nutrients by living on or in an organism of another species. A complete parasite gets all of its nutrients from the host organism, but a semi-parasite gets only some of its nutrients from the host.",
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/parasite/"
}

Record 12,653 of 17,721 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.