Parasite - CISMeF

Preferred Label : Parasite;

NCIt related terms : Parasites; parasitic;

NCIt definition : Any organism that has a close, symbiotic relationship with a separate, host organism.;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: An animal or plant that gets nutrients by living on or in an organism of another species. A complete parasite gets all of its nutrients from the host organism, but a semi-parasite gets only some of its nutrients from the host.; NICHD: An organism that lives on or in a host organism, and that draws its nourishment from that host.;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000044310; CDR0000044075;

Details

Origin ID

C28176;

UMLS CUI

C0030498;

False automatic mappings
- parasite [ICPS Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Eukaryote [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Parasite [LOINC component]
- Parasite (navigational concept) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Parasites [LOINC component]
- Parasites [LOINC component]
- parasite, nos [SNOMED Notion]
- parasites [MeSH Descriptor]
- parasites [MeSH concept]
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- NICHD Terminology [NCIt concept]
- Pediatric Infectious Disease Terminology [NCIt concept]

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