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PHORESY
Synonym: electrophoresis.
2. A biologicalassociation in which one organism is transported by other, as in the attachment of the eggs of Dermatobia hominis, a human and cattle botfly, to the legs of a mosquito, which transports them to the human, cattle, or another host in which the botflylarvae can develop.
Synonym: epizoic commensalism, phoresy.
Origin: G. Phoresis, a being borne