Usually means: Cell that harbors foreign material.
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  3. host cell: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
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▸ noun:  (biology) A living cell which harbours an infectious agent (such as a virus or bacterium).

Similar:
endopathogen, prophage, phage, virocell, hemopathogen, hospicell, pathozone, infectant, infectee, provirus, more...

Opposite:
invading cell, foreign cell, pathogen

Phrases:
Host cell protein, more...

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Similar:
endopathogen, prophage, phage, virocell, hemopathogen, hospicell, pathozone, infectant, infectee, provirus, more...

Opposite:
invading cell, foreign cell, pathogen

Phrases:
Host cell protein, more...



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