Tiberius makes a long speech glorifying himself; a parasite named Serybil flatters him on his good looks, and he in return blesses Serybil's face, which was probably carbuncled as richly as Corporal Bardolph's.
He then sets himself to work to get rid of his Queen, turns away from his old counsellors, and gives his ear to an unscrupulous parasite named Ateukin.
The mistletoe berry was a famous medicine because it was the fruit of a parasite supposed to contain the "life substance" of a powerful deity.
Two fire-sticks, one from the soft parasite and one from the hard wood of the tree to which it clung, were rubbed together until sparks issued forth and fell on dry leaves or dry grass.
Although the sacred parasite was not used for firewood, it served as a fire-producer.
The weakly parasite was thus regarded as being very powerful.
On Beta," he said bluntly, "your appearance would qualify you for a parasite camp.
The parasite had been concentrated at Hillside Station and had failed to establish itself in the training area.
Our parasite can't have had time to migrate too far.
The parasite that's doing the damage is a flatworm, a trematode called Hepatodirus hominis.
Well--I'm really interested in only one thing--how do you break the parasite up in business?
I was looking over the herd books last night, and I saw nothing about trematodes, or anything that looked like a parasite pattern until the last few months.
Photographs and tri-dis would have to be taken, the parasite would have to be identified and its sensitivity to therapy determined.
A Cornell University counter used for animal-parasite studies, below.
The counter revealed that a positive relationship exists between the level of parasite infestation and loss of iron-59-labeled blood from the digestive tract.
This parasite exhibits itself under the form of little articulated rods that live isolated from oxygen in the mass of the tissues, and disorganize the latter in disengaging a large quantity of putrid gas.
According to Lepelletier de Saint-Fargeau, who has so successfully treated these questions, the parasite is he who lives at the expense of another, eating that which belongs to him, but not devouring his nurse herself.
Gray, of the British Museum, considers the sponge as a parasite of the Polythoa, and that the bundle of spicules belongs, not to the sponge, but to the polyp.
Thus the parasite is received by means of the water which is drunk; and this remark is 153 the more important since it will henceforth be only necessary to make use of carefully filtered water in order to guard against it.
We should almost venture to assert, a priori, that the species in the gills lives as a parasite on the blood of its host, whilst the other, lodged under the abdomen, plays the same part as the histriobdella of the lobster.
It is not so much a parasite as an assassin, and we may be excused from describing it.
The taenia, as well as the other tape-worms, is generally looked upon as an imprisoned parasite during the whole of its existence.
Who then has traced out for it this itinerary, and pointed out the way, the only one by which the parasite can hope to take possession of its proper abode?
Bilharz, the pupil of Siebold, discovered in the year 1851, on man, a parasite in every respect remarkable.
The experiment has been made: young men have ventured, in the interests of science, to swallow some, and have ascertained how many days were required for the parasite to be sufficiently complete to give off segments with the feces.
Rang mentions a little creature of this kind in Senegal, living as a parasite upon the respiratory apparatus of an anodont.
He is a parasite on a journey; he is always agamous, and usually bears the name of cysticercus (Fig.
It is to be presumed that this dreadful parasite has been introduced into man by means of the flesh of the goat, and perhaps of the rabbit.
The parasite is he whose profession it is to live at the expense of his neighbour, and whose only employment consists in taking advantage of him, but prudently, so as not to endanger his life.
Following the direction in which Abe pointed, my eyes rested on a huge parasite of the lliana kind, that, rising out of the ground at some distance, slanted upward and joined the sycamore near its top.
Another followed, and another, and another, until a string of no less than six raccoons squatted along the parasite threatening to run downward!
The identical buttonwood with its greatparasite was before us, the dog barking at its foot!
The chief part of the Eunuchus is taken from a play of the same title by Menander; but the characters of the parasite and captain have been transferred into it from another play of Menander, called Kolax.
The character of Phormio is finely separated from that of Gnatho, and is better drawn than the part of any parasite in Plautus.
The parasite then personates the captain's servant, and, by means of the credentials of which he had possessed himself, obtains the damsel Filesia, whom he carries to her lover.
In such soliloquies, too, he rather expresses what would justly be thought of him by others, than what even a parasite was likely to say of himself.
His cheerfulness and humour are of the most characteristic and captivating sort, and instead of suffering that contumely with which the parasite and Miles Gloriosus are loaded, laughter and approbation attend his greatest excesses.
The parasite proceeds to the miser's native country, and attempts, though unsuccessfully, to defraud the son of the whole inheritance.
We learn from Athenaeus(242), that a parasite was introduced in one of his plays by Epicharmus, the founder of the Greek comedy.
On the general nature of the parts of the parasite and braggart captain, something has been said while treating of the dramas of Plautus; but Terence has greatly refined and improved on these favourite characters of his predecessor.
The parasite of this ancient dramatist lay at the feet of the rich, eat the offals from their tables, and drank the dregs of their cups.
It is the parasite of which they brag, and not the dull and dusty freight.
They call her a parasite and say things about Solomon in all his glory when they look at the gay flowers in her dining cars and the rampant luxury in her lounging cars--but how they do love her!
How shall any man distinguish now betwixt a parasite and a man of honor ?
They usually have broad, thin, and disklike bodies, and areparasite on the gills and skin of fishes.
The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.
Any parasite which lives in the internal organs of an animal, as the tapeworms, Trichina, etc.
A vegetable parasite subsisting in the interior of the body.
A vegetable parasite growing on the surface of the body.
A parasite of man and of many domestic and wild animals, forming compound cysts or tumors (called hydatid cysts) in various organs, but especially in the liver and lungs, which often cause death.
This parasite attacks several species of fungi, and so alters their structure and appearance that it is difficult to distinguish the host-plant.
The parasite is proving itself an enemy to fungi, but a friend to man.
The influence of the home with a working wife is not all that could be desired; and we may turn with some hope of better things to the home with a parasite wife.
The confinement of the woman to the home, when she does not labour, results in her becoming a parasite, and the appetite of a parasite is insatiable.
It is perhaps an idle speculation, but it would be interesting to know how many plants would become extinct were some disease or parasite to exterminate the bees.
The common form of malaria is caused by a parasiterequiring forty-eight hours for its development.
When a healthy mosquito bites a malarial patient, the parasite enters the body of the mosquito with the blood of the patient bitten.
While the parasite infesting mosquitoes is the only direct cause of malaria, yet certain circumstances are requisite for the life and growth of the mosquitoes.
The malarial attacks caused by this parasite then occur every other day, when the parasiteundergoes reproduction by division.
Mosquitoes, in their turn, acquire the malarial parasite by biting human beings suffering from malaria.
It is at that stage in the development of the parasite in the human body when it multiplies by dividing that the chills and fever in malaria appear.
The mosquito acquires the undeveloped parasite by biting the human malarial patient, and then acts as a medium of infection by transmitting the active parasite to some healthy man, through the bite.
When a mosquito infected with the malarial parasite bites man, the parasite enters his blood along with the saliva that anoints the lancet of the mosquito.
The reproduction of the parasite in the human blood is not a sexual reproduction; that takes place in the body of the mosquito.
The malarial parasite which lives in the blood of man, when he is suffering from malaria, first inhabits the body of a certain kind of mosquito.
Usually a week or two elapses after the entrance of the malarial parasite into the blood before symptoms occur; rarely this period is as short as twenty-four hours, and occasionally may extend to several months.
No Parasite now am I, but a right royal king of kings; so large a stock of provision for my stomach is there at hand in the harbour.
The Parasite very appropriately deifies Gluttony: as the Goddess of Bellyful would, of course, merit his constant worship.
Away with the profession of a Parasite to very utter and extreme perdition!
Apparently, spoiled corn is necessary, and while presumably the corn itself is not the agent, the parasite or organism that is responsible lives only on corn which has been spoiled.
The positive determination of the disease is possible by an examination of the patient's blood, in which the malarialparasite can readily be found.
The most common example of the direct transmission of disease from animals to men is through the development of the parasite in a pig, known as "trichinosis.
The burrowing parasite causes a great loss of blood, and it is on account of the resulting anæmia that the poor whites show always such incapacity, indifference, and apparent laziness.
The next Sunday or so a young Jew parasite succeeded in breaking up our meeting.
Blood drawn during a febrile paroxysm shows the parasite in its different stages of intra-corpuscular development.
Ross further showed that the mosquito which served as an intermediate host for this parasite could not transmit the malarial parasite of man or another similar parasite of birds (halteridium).
The discovery of this parasite may justly be considered one of the greatest achievements of scientific research during the nineteenth century.
This proof consists in the experimental inoculation of healthy individuals with blood containing the parasite and the development of a typical attack of periodic fever as a result of such inoculation.
This parasite was discovered in the blood of patients suffering from intermittent fevers by Laveran, a surgeon in the French army, whose investigations were conducted in Algiers.
The result is reported by Manson, as follows: "Mosquitoes infected with the parasite of benign tertian malarial fever were sent from Rome to England, and were allowed to feed upon the blood of a perfectly healthy individual (Dr.
This is the so-called period of incubation, during which, no doubt, the parasite is undergoing multiplication in the blood of the inoculated individual.
No god, demigod, or other parasite of human ignorance is complete without miracles, for it is only the natural and commonplace that are unbelievable.
A scheme for protecting the parasite and prolonging the life of the rogue, averting the natural consequences which would otherwise come to them.
