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harbor

vt har·bor \ˈhär-bər\

Medical Definition of HARBOR

:  to contain or be the home, habitat, or host of <those who harbor the gene for the illness—William Booth> <green monkey (Cercopithecus aethiops) may have harbored the ancestor of the AIDS virus—R. C. Gallo>

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