nidus
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- noun
- /ˈnaɪdəs/
- Specialized
:
nido de infección
- The patient who has a persistent fever despite antibiotics should alert the medical team that there is an undetected and untreated nidus of infection.
- nidus of infection
Examples
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The doctor explained that the nidus of infection was located in the patient's lungs.
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Researchers identified the nidus of the disease, which helped them develop a targeted treatment.
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If it's TB, then there has to be a nidus somewhere.
Fiction book (1991) -
A cursory assessment of the figures in Table 1 immediately highlights the infection's nidus in Yunnan province.
Academic text (1991) -
All in relatively young women, and all without any apparent nidus of infection elsewhere, particularly nothing in the lungs. "What do you mean by relatively young women?" Cyrill asked.
Fiction book (1991) -
The nidus of HIV in Yunnan may also be a function of the lack of mobility found in Chinese agrarian populations and its proximity to Burma.
Academic text (1991) -
Although Candida spp. adhere to intravascular catheters, providing a potential nidus for infection, a previous study showed that C. auris does not form a biofilm (3).
Academic text (2013) -
This report documents ethnographic and epidemiologic findings from field visits conducted in Beijing, Chengdu, and Kunming; the latter in Yunnan province, site of China's most severe nidus of HIV infection.
Academic text (1991) -
In this study, the team focused on the nidus of infection present in the tissue samples.
Synonyms
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5.1
The central point where light rays meet
A place in the body where an infection begins or is mainly found
The main place in the body where an infection starts
Compounds
- Australian
A fern with large, round leaves that grows on trees in tropical places
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word nidus comes from Latin nidus, which means 'nest'. In medicine, a nidus is like a 'nest' where germs or infection can live and grow, so doctors look for it to remove the problem.