The economic malady involved affects primarily the dominant or parasitic State or central part, its condition of parasitism being more deadly than its draining effect on the others.
The most incurable disease of empire was just empire; ages of parasitism had made the Roman ruling class incapable of energetic action; and the autocracy had long withheld from citizens the use of arms.
Whether the deposit of eggs be in the mother's back or in the tissue of some other animal the parasitism is no less evident, at most it is a question of degree.
Thus considered the notion of parasitism temporary or larval will disappear, or, rather, take a much greater extension, enveloping a considerable number of facts up till now separated in irreducible categories.
He has to get money, and in order to get it he has to impress those who already have it--people whose minds and souls have been deformed by the system of parasitism and exploitation.
As the Reformation compelled the Catholic Church to cleanse itself and abolish the grossest of its abuses, so the Social Revolution will compel it to repudiate its defense of parasitism and exploitation.
But to jump out of parasitism into Socialism would be jumping out of the frying-pan into the fire.
Of two species, the one producing the more young probably would be subjected to more parasitism and predation than the species producing fewer young.
The reasons for this unequal amount of parasitism in two species of mice occurring in the same general area remain obscure.
Let it be borne in mind that quite as much information might be offered by me respecting the parasitism of each of the commoner domestic animals as has been already advanced in regard to the helminthism of man.
To give an air of completeness to this treatise, I shall devote the few pages remaining at my disposal to a brief summary of the general facts of parasitism as witnessed in birds, reptiles, fishes, and evertebrated animals.
The medical man who only looks at the phenomena of parasitism as displayed within the human territory must of necessity acquire a cramped, narrow, and distorted conception of the rôle played by parasites in the production of disease.
Much that I have advanced in respect of the parasitism of birds holds good in the case of reptiles.
Dealing with parasites and parasitism after a manner not hitherto attempted I have purposely omitted minute anatomical descriptions, and, with rare exceptions, I have avoided the introduction of clinical details.
The parasitism of some of the species is very partial or slight.
Although multitudes of small Crustaceans are parasitic upon fishes, and some few of them adhere to oceanic mammals (Cetacea), I am sceptical as to the parasitism of Crustacea either in or upon man.
The facts of hydatid parasitism in animals, though often peculiar, are, for the most part, of an order similar to those presented in the human subject.
Mr Hope’s catalogue of insects producing parasitism in man gives three examples of scolechiasis from this source.
Hope’s list records no less than nine instances of parasitism in man from the larvæ of Tenebrio molitor, and he gives a score of other Coleopterous insects which he regarded as human “intestinal worms.
In fact, it becomes difficult to say where the line of parasitism should be drawn.
This personal parasitism of property owners is aggravated by provisions of property law under which the owners of property can give, sell or bequeath these sources of unearned income to family members, friends, associates.
Another and far less respectable form of social parasitism is the manipulation of social forces in a way that will bring the operator more than a fair share of social income with no equivalent in service.
Village life, with its limited area and still more limited resources, has little economic surplus upon which parasitism can feed.
Side by side with the rise in overhead costs went the increase ofparasitism among the rich and among the poor.
The paralysis of parasitism replaces the will to power.
As parasitism increases and multiplies it proves to be a dead weight which eventually drags down any economy that tolerates it.
A brief summary of the facts regarding parasitism among birds will be found in Girod's Les Sociétés chez les Animaux, 1891, pp.
This parasitism has to such an extent become a habit with the species, that the larva's organisation has become modified by it.
Undoubtedly, in theory, you are right; in practice, the suppression of parasitism would be a calamity.
What an advantage it would be for the working-class, you think, if this leprosy of parasitism should be removed!
The Stilbacei have also similar habitats, except that the species of Illosporium seem to be confined to parasitism on lichens.
F] The parasitism of numerous minute species on living and growing plants has its parallel even amongst phanerogams in the mistletoe and broom-rape and similar species.
Parasitism and servile dependence act very much in structural lower life as analogous instances of mental dependence on others act on man.
Neither capitalism nor Christianism is anything except insofar as it is a system of parasitism and as parasitic systems they have striking resemblances, nearly as many and close as indistinguishable twins.
What is the effect of parasitism on the structure of the parasite?
What connection is there between parasitismand degeneration?
On Erysiphe graminis and its adaptative parasitism within the genus, Bromus," Ann.
Parasitism in the metazoa (in all groups) is even more frequent and interesting than in the metaphyta.
Among the multicellular metaphyta it is particularly the fungi that have taken to parasitism in various ways.
From parasitism we must entirely distinguish that intimate life-union of two different organisms which we called symbiosis or mutualism.
As we count these unnucleated protozoa among the oldest and simplest organisms, and trace them directly by metasitism to the plasmodomous chromacea, it is very probable that they turned to parasitism very early in the history of life.
Undisguised and shameless parasitism is the order, or disorder, of our days.
In crustaceans such as the rhizocephala, which must formerly have shown a more differentiated structure, fixity and parasitismaccompany the degeneration and almost complete disappearance of the nervous system.
In symbiosis the bacteria probably undergo changes by which they become adapted to the environment, and in parasitism the environment becomes adapted to them.
Degeneration, decay and parasitism only become disease factors when the conditions produced by them interfere with the life which is the normal or usual for the individual concerned.
In certain cases the adaptation of the organism is for a narrow environment; for example, the parasitism may extend to a simple species only, in others the adaptation may extend to a number of genera.
So marked is the tendency to parasitism that they are often parasitic for each other, smaller forms entering into and living upon the larger.
Olive Schreiner has especially emphasized the evils of parasitismfor women.
Insects are attracted to its nutritious seed-organs, and an age of this form of parasitism leads to a signal modification of the jaws of the insects themselves and to the lavish variety and brilliance of the flowers.
Such parasitism may be normal, as in the cases already described under the heading parasitic Diptera, or it may be facultative, due to free-living larvae being accidentally introduced into wounds or the body-cavities of man.
Brumpt cites a curious case of accidental parasitism by a coleopterous larva belonging to the genus Necrobia.
Parasitism is an adaptation which has originated very often among living organisms and in widely separated groups.
The origin and significance of parasitism in the Acarina.
The literature of the subject, like that relating to facultative parasitism in general, is unsatisfactory, for most of the determinations of species have been very loose.
Transient parasitism in men by a species of Rhizoglyphus.
Thus, parasitism is a phase of the broad biological phenomenon of symbiosis, or living together of organisms.
Cobbold refers to a half dozen cases of accidental parasitism by the larvae of Blaps mortisaga.
We shall therefore discuss the Acarina more especially in subsequent chapters, dealing withparasitism and with disease transmission.
A symbiote--and Dis was the world where symbiosis and parasitism had become more advanced and complex than on any other planet.
Symbiosis, parasitism and all the rest are just ways of describing variations of the same basic process of living together.
The larch suffers from several diseases caused by fungi; the most important is the larch-canker caused by the parasitism of Peziza Willkommii.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parasitism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
