different between organism vs autoinfection

organism

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (órganon, tool, instrument), from Proto-Indo-European *wer?- (work). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: ôr?g?n?z?m
  • (UK) IPA(key): /???.??n.?.z?m/
  • (US) IPA(key): /???.??n.?.z?m/

Noun

organism (plural organisms)

  1. (biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
  2. (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.

Hyponyms

  • See also Thesaurus:organism

Derived terms

  • free-living organism
  • organismal
  • organismic

Translations

Anagrams

  • moringas, roamings, sinogram

Romanian

Etymology

From French organisme

Noun

organism n (plural organisme)

  1. organism

Declension

organism From the web:

  • what organisms perform cellular respiration
  • what organisms perform photosynthesis
  • what organisms are prokaryotes
  • what organisms are producers
  • what organisms reproduce asexually
  • what organisms use cellular respiration
  • what organism causes legionnaires disease
  • what organisms have ribosomes


autoinfection

English

Etymology

auto- +? infection

Noun

autoinfection (countable and uncountable, plural autoinfections)

  1. The infection of a primary host with a parasite, particularly a helminth, in such a way that the complete life cycle of the parasite happens in a single organism, without the involvement of another host.

Related terms

  • autoinfect

autoinfection From the web:

  • what is autoinfection in parasite
  • what does autoinfection mean
  • what does autoinfection
  • what is autoinfection in biology
  • what cause autoinfection
  • what parasite causes autoinfection
  • what is internal autoinfection
  • autoinfection parasites examples
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