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Organism harboring or infected with a parasite
a) Host
b) Definitive host
c) Obligate parasite
d) Trematode

Most infections occur when a person is a _______ and the organism in which a parasite passes its adult and sexual existence.
a) Host
b) Intermediate host
c) Protozoa
d) Definitive host

Many animals are the organism in which a parasite passes its larval or nonsexual existence.
a) Facultative host
b) Helminths
c) Intermediate host
d) Arthropods

A parasite is entirely dependent upon a host for its survival.
a) Infestation
b) Obligate parasite
c) Cestodes
d) Protozoa

A parasite that may be parasitic upon another organism but can exist independently.
a) Facultative parasite
b) Obligate parasite
c) Tapeworm
d) Cestode

Microscopic one-celled organisms that are categorized according to their method of movement.
a) Nematodes
b) Flukes
c) Protozoa
d) Arthopods

Roundworms that are classified by their external shape and type of host organ they invade.
a) Intermediate host
b) Worm burden
c) Trematode
d) Nematode

Worm-like parasites. The clinically relevant groups are separated according to their general external shape and the host organ they inhabit
a) Helminths
b) Arthropods
c) Apicomplexa
d) Protozoa

Tapeworms
a) Trematode
b) Cestode
c) Nematode
d) Arthropod

Flukes
a) Helminths
b) Nematode
c) Cestode
d) Trematode

A phylum name referring to certain insects (including mosquitos and ticks) and spiders.
a) Protozoa
b) Arthropods
c) Worm burden
d) Helminths

A parasitic attack or subsistence on the skin and/or its appendages, as by insects, mites, or ticks.
a) Worm burden
b) Infestation
c) Host
d) Facultative parasite

The number of worms an individual host carries which, depending on the worm, can be measured either directly, or indirectly.
a) Infestation
b) Arthropods
c) Worm burden
d) Helminths

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