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Network software
Relating to the information, data or programming used to make it possible for computers to communicate or connect to one another.
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concentration method
Biology; Parasitology
A procedure for increasing the strength of or numbers in a medium e.g. 10% acid is more concentrated than 5% acid. A method or procedure that increases the intensity or numbers ...
contaminated source
Biology; Parasitology
Something, soil, water, an object, or anything that is in contact with feces and may be the source of an infective agent or organism. An organism may or may not cause disease.
contamination
Biology; Parasitology
The general meaning of this term is clear in that it refers to feces in the context of parasitic disease, however, it should be remembered that a contaminated object is not ...
contractile vacuole
Biology; Parasitology
In Balantidium coli and many free-living protozoa, especially ciliates, a vacuole that is associated with removing liquid wastes from the body of the organism. In living ciliates, ...
coprozoic or coprophagous
Biology; Parasitology
Literally this means living in or found in feces. Often it is applied to a spurious parasite, one that has been ingested and passed through the intestinal tract without infecting ...
coracidium
Biology; Parasitology
In pseudophyllidian tapeworms, the onchosphere enclosed in its ciliated embryophore after hatching from the egg shell. It is free-swimming, and is the precursor of the first stage ...
cortex
Biology; Parasitology
An outside layer e.g. cortex of the kidney. In helminths, the outer, mammillated coating of an egg of Ascaris lumbricoides.