suscept
suscept — noun
1. a living creature that a parasite or disease-causing agent can invade and live i
a living creature that a parasite or disease-causing agent can invade and live inside or feed on
Dr. Adaeze identified the freshwater snail as a suscept for the liver fluke.
identified + as + suscept
Stressed farm animals are more likely to become suscepts for internal worms.
become suscepts — plural form
Tamar watched the caterpillar turn into a suscept after a wasp laid eggs on it.
Farmers remove infected suscepts from the field to stop the rust fungus.
Without a living suscept, the parasitic worm cannot grow or reproduce.
- host
more general term — a suscept is always a host, but a host may or may not be susceptible
- potential host
emphasises that the organism is a candidate for infection rather than already carrying a parasite
- immune host
an organism that carries a parasite but cannot be infected by it
用法筆記
A suscept is a specific type of host that is vulnerable to (can be infected by) a given parasite. Not every host is a suscept — an immune carrier may harbour a parasite without being susceptible, so it is a host but not a suscept.