noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
intestinal
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Our immune systems used to encounter intestinal parasites as part of normal development.
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In many instances it was dozens or even, as with intestinal parasites , hundreds of times higher than average.
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And in exceptional circumstances, microscopic intestinal parasites have survived to indicate some of the health problems that people suffered.
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Treatment was geared to boosting John's immune system which was being battered by various systemic fungi and intestinal parasites .
other
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Protozoans are effectively invisible to the naked eye, and flukes nearly so, but other external parasites are all too-readily seen.
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It looked like any other parasite .
■ NOUN
malaria
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So could malaria parasites be destroyed by assaulting them with free oxygen radicals?
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This may be a result of having received a lesser dose of malaria parasite , he said.
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After infection, malaria parasites multiply by a factor of eight every 24 hours.
■ VERB
cause
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Surprisingly, it is the minor parasites of wheat that cause the biggest headaches for triticale growers.
find
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The bird, widespread as it is, has resisted the temptation to diverge into numerous kinds found among many nest parasites .
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Thus we find parasites upon parasites.
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Legionellae in the enviroment are found as parasites of protozoa in which intracellular multiplication can take place.
kill
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Although you have killed the White Spot parasites , they have left scars and marks, which are still irritating your fish.
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This membrane defect makes it much easier for toxic substances made by the immune system to enter red cells and kill parasites .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Most government employees had become parasites, expecting to retain their positions through friendship or political favor.
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They tend to regard people on welfare as parasites.
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You shouldn't feel sorry for these people - they're just parasites.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It will probably resist extermination, however, since, unlike its parasite , it frequents shallow water.
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Screening for the parasite should be part of the investigative procedures in children with chronic diarrhoea.
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The parasites that were spread in this way had never before been considered sexually transmitted.
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The benefit for the gatherers - the parasites of the system- is self evident.
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The end product of such a course of evolution is an obligate parasite that is inextricably linked to a particular host.
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The well developed buccal capsule of the adult parasite is prominent as is the bursa of the male.