host cell

noun

Definitions

  1. A living cell which harbours an infectious agent (such as a virus or bacterium).

    • Host cells are forced to produce thousands of copies of the original virus.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for host cell. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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