In medicine, any structure that resembles a nest in appearance or function. From the Latin for 'nest.' A nidus is a breeding place where bacteria, parasites, and other agents of a disease lodge and develop. For example, a nidus of infection is a focus of infection. A nidus is also the nucleus or origin of a nerve. The nidus avis cerebelli [..]

"nest, breeding place," 1742, from Latin nidus "a nest," from Old Latin *nizdus (see nest (n.)). Figurative use by 1807. Classical plural is nidi.

A place or point in an organism where a germ or other organism can develop or breed.

Specific locality of a given disease; result of a unique combination of ecological factors that favors the maintenance and transmission of the disease organism. nihilists

(n) a central point or locus of an infection in an organism(n) a nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs

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An aggregate of neurons. A nest for insects or small animals. A locus of infection in an organism. An originating point for a phenomenon.