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epizoic commensalism (medicine)


epizoic commensalism -->
phoresis


Synonym: electrophoresis.

2. A biological association in which one organism is transported by another, as in the attachment of the eggs of Dermatobia hominis, a human and cattle botfly, to the legs of a mosquito, which transports them to the human, cattle, or other host in which the botfly larvae can develop.

Synonym: epizoic commensalism, phoresy.

Origin: G. Phoresis, a being borne