PEDICULUS
\pɛdˈɪkjʊləs], \pɛdˈɪkjʊləs], \p_ɛ_d_ˈɪ_k_j_ʊ_l_ə_s]\
Definitions of PEDICULUS
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Lice of the genus Pediculus, family Pediculidae. Pediculus humanus corporus is the human body louse and Pediculus humanus capitis is the human head louse.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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p[=e]-dik'[=u]-lus, n. a genus of lice, or an individual of it.--adjs. P[=E]DIC'ULAR, P[=E]DIC'ULOUS, lousy.--ns. P[=E]DICUL[=A]'TION, P[=E]DICUL[=O]'SIS, lousiness.
By Thomas Davidson
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A genus of parasitic insects. The human body is infested with three kinds: the Body-louse, or Clothes- louse, Pediculus vestimenti, (F.) Pau de corps; the Head-louse, Pediculus capitis, (F.) Pou de la tete, which lives in the hair; the Crab-louse, Morpio, Feralis pediculus, Platula, Phthirius inguinalis, Pediculus Pubis, (F.) Morpion, which infests the hair of the pubes. Infusion of tobacco, or mercurial ointment, or ointment of white precipitate of mercury, or the white or red precipitate of mercury, readily destroys them. The louse occurring in phtheiriasis, pediculus tabescentium, differs from the common louse.-Vogel.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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See pedicle.
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A genus of insects of the class Hexapoda and the order Siphunculata (the lice) parasitic on man and other animals. Three varieties infest man: pediculus capitis, pediculus vestimenti and pediculus pubis. Some writers limit the term to pediculus capitis andpediculus vestimenti, while pediculus pubis is termed Phthirius (q. v.).
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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