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Reservoir

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<B>1.</B> A place where something such as water is kept in reserve.<BR><B>2.</B> The part of a device in which something is kept in reserve or stored, as an Ommaya reservoir.<BR><B>3.</B> For an infectious agent, an animal, person, plant, soil, or other substance in which the agent normally abides.

See: Reservoir of infection.

<BR>From the French reservoir, from reserver meaning to reserve

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