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nidus


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nidus  \Ni"dus\,  n.;  pl  {nidi}.  [L.  See  {Nidi},  {Nest}.] 
  A  nest:  a  repository  for  the  eggs  of  birds,  insects,  etc.;  a 
  breeding  place  esp.,  the  place  or  substance  where  parasites 
  or  the  germs  of  a  disease  effect  lodgment  or  are  developed. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  nidus 
  n  :  a  central  point  or  locus  of  bacterial  growth  in  an  organism; 
  "the  focus  of  infection"  [syn:  {focus}] 




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