Other Conditions Causing Yellow Toenails. Although fungal infection is the most likely cause of yellow toenails, rarely, some other disease conditions can also result in yellow toenails. Some of these conditions are psoriasis, jaundice, paronychia, lymphedema, bronchiectasis, tuberculosis and sinusitis.
1. a plant or animal that lives upon or within another living organism at whose expense it obtains some advantage; see symbiosis. 2. the smaller, less complete member of asymmetrical conjoined twins, attached to and dependent upon the autosite.parasitÂ´ic. malarial parasite Plasmodium.
Parasitism takes place when one organism (parasite) benefits at the expense of another (host). This type of interaction usually harms the host but, unlike carnivory, does not always result in the death of the host. In most cases, the parasite is much smaller than the host and has a much faster reproductive rate.erbivory is a type of predation in which animals/organisms consume autotrophs such as plants, algae, and photosynthesizing bacteria. Herbivory is a term commonly used to describe the consuming of plants by animals.