These forms of parasite are so numerous, that nearly every species of flowering plant may become the nidus even of several named genera, with many species, or, at least, varieties of them.
What makes for such a mediary milieu is, like most cosmic processes, in its fundamentals of interesting simplicity; for the production of a proper nidus depends primarily upon the mere size of the body parentally concerned.
Lastly, water, the essential nidus for the organism's early stages, has its presence similarly conditioned.
On detaching the branch, he found that it was perforated, and that the insect was in the very act of excavating a nidus for her eggs.
These flies are continually prowling about and prying into every corner, to find, by stealth, a nidus for their eggs.
It is important to discover the origin of the tuberous mass which becomes, so to speak, a convenient nidus for the fungus.
This nidus does not float at liberty in the water till after the eggs are hatched, the parent animal always attaching it to some plant.
Others suppose that by these organs it scents out the destined nidus for its eggs; but Lehmann has satisfactorily proved that they are not olfactory organs.
In autopsies they have been found in the urinary tubules, pressing forward and piercing the walls, not occupying a nidus of inflammation, however, and probably are even here a post-mortem phenomenon.
Experience has so long shown that the human brain is a congenial nidus for inconsistent beliefs that we do not pause to inquire how Dr.
As the cicatricula of these eggs is given by the cock, and is evidently the rudiment of the new animal; we may conclude, that the embryon is produced by the male, and the proper food and nidus by the female.
It may be shown, I think, that the Family, as held together by the Patria Potestas, is the nidus out of which the entire Law of Persons has germinated.
Tissues also which are dead or depressed in vitality from injury or previous disease, but which are still in contact with the tissues, afford an excellent nidus for the growth of bacteria.
Defects in the enamel, inherent or due to injury, retention of débris on and around the teeth, and certain pathological conditions of the secretion of the mouth are predisposing causes, which afford a suitable nidusfor putrefactive bacteria.
Antecedent disease predisposes the tissues to form a nidus for bacteria; conditions of environment or personal habits frequently act in the same way.
Such influences as these weaken the resisting power of the tissues, and thus afford a suitable nidus for the bacillus conveyed in milk or by the inspiration of infected dust.
Unclean feeding-bottles are obviously an admirable nidus for these injurious bacteria, for in such a resting-place the three main conditions necessary for bacterial life are well fulfilled, viz.
Such a large quantity of organic matter, in which decomposition is constantly taking place, will afford an almost ideal nidus for micro-organic life.
From all that has been said respecting the sources of pollution and the favourable nidus which milk affords for bacteria, it is not surprising that a very large number of germs are almost always present in milk.
However thorough the manipulation, there will always be a residue remaining in the ducts, which will, and does, afford a suitable nidus and incubator for organisms.
Pneumonia depresses the resistant vitality of the tissues, and thus affords to the diplococcus present in the saliva an excellent nidus for its growth.
In addition to these saprophytes and the economic bacteria, there are, as is now well known, some disease-producing bacteria finding their nidus in ordinary soil.
Any tissue whose vitality has been lowered by injury or disease furnishes a favourable nidus for the lodgment and growth of tubercle bacilli.
When the female lays her eggs in the clayey nidus she makes in houses, she incloses the dead body of a caterpillar in it for the subsistence of the worms when they are hatched.
Curetting should follow dilatation, in the hope that the new endometrium formed may afford a betternidus for the ovum.
This thin but rough covering entangles stray particles, and thus by its own decay affords a nidus for a stronger growth.
A condition of things is found existing, of which the only explanation is that family was the nidus out of which sprung forth the House, then the Tribe, then the Commonwealth with its patriarchal government.
The auger used by certain species of Oestrus, to enable them to penetrate the hides of oxen or deer and form a nidus for their eggs, has been before described[677].
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nidus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: birthplace; brooder; cradle; hive; hotbed; nest; nursery; rookery
