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nidus

[ nahy-duhs ]

noun

plural nidi
  1. a nest, especially one in which insects, spiders, etc., deposit their eggs.
  2. a place or point in an organism where a germ or other organism can develop or breed.


nidus

/ ˈԲɪə /

noun

  1. the nest in which insects or spiders deposit their eggs
  2. pathol a focus of infection
  3. a cavity in which plant spores develop
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Derived Forms

  • ˈԾ岹, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • Ծd adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of nidus1

1735–45; < Latin īܲ nest
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of nidus1

C18: from Latin nest
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Among them, occasionally, an underlying structural abnormality in the brain can be the nidus for electrical disarray.

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In autopsies they have been found in the urinary tubules, pressing forward and piercing the walls, not occupying a nidus of inflammation, however, and probably are even here a post-mortem phenomenon.

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These writers maintained that whenever any organ was weakened, or in a morbid condition, it was apt to become a nidus for some insects or worms to burrow in.

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To some of them was attached a nidus of eggs, which was deposited between the animal and the spire.

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A condition of things is found existing, of which the only explanation is that family was the nidus out of which sprung forth the House, then the Tribe, then the Commonwealth with its patriarchal government.

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