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Nidus

Nidus \Ni"dus\, n.; pl. nidi. [L. See Nidi, Nest.] A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nidus

"nest, breeding place," 1742, from Latin nidus "a nest," from Old Latin *nizdus (see nest (n.)). Figurative use by 1807. Classical plural is nidi.

Wiktionary
nidus

n. 1 A nest for insects or small animals 2 A locus of infection in an organism 3 An originating point for a phenomenon

WordNet
nidus

  1. n. a central point or locus of an infection in an organism; "the focus of infection" [syn: focus, focal point]

  2. a nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs

  3. [also: nidi (pl)]

Wikipedia
Nidus

Nidus may refer to:

  • In medicine, a point or place at which something originates, accumulates, or develops, as the center on which a tumor forms.
  • Nest, for insects or small animals
  • Locus of infection, the point on the body where a pathogen enters
  • The natural reservoir for a pathogen
  • The characteristic lesion in osteoid osteoma
  • The centre of a bladder stone
  • The material around which an enterolith forms
  • The Nidus, a fictional magical object in the television series Into the Labyrinth

Usage examples of "nidus".

All in relatively young women, and all without any apparent nidus of infection elsewhere, particularly nothing in the lungs.

Den, hive, nest, nidus, eyrie, newlywed starter home: they build themselves a pallet on the floor.

The Council was struggling to prevent the PRA from becoming a political group with sufficient power to win a majority in the Council and declare war on Nidus, and to date it had managed the feat.

But in the tenement houses and on the made lands where running streams have been filled in and natural springs choked up by earth fillings, diphtheria finds a nidus in which to develop itself.

Practically, if you reopen a drain well laid with pipes and collars, you will find them reposing in a beautiful nidus, which, when they are carefully removed, looks exactly as if it had been moulded for them.

And yet East Borders itself was a simple motte and bailey that looked modest, almost meager compared to the lofty battlements and the four towers of Castle Nidus.

And the three of them straggled over the rocky road to Nidus into a new blizzard.