Meaning & use
nidus
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A place or point of origin where something develops, especially an infection or a nest-like structure.
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The old wound became a nidus for the bacterial infection that followed.
Historians see the small trading post as the nidus of the sprawling city.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from Latin, where it literally means 'nest'; in medicine it specifically refers to a focus from which infection or disease spreads.
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