SARCOPTES
\sˈɑːkɒpts], \sˈɑːkɒpts], \s_ˈɑː_k_ɒ_p_t_s]\
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By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Scabis communis, a species of Acarus (itch mite) from the horse, the sheep, and the dog, chicken, pig, and other animals that occasionally attacks man and produces eruptions similar to that of scabies. These parasites cannot live in the human skin and accordingly do not form burrows.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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Pyramidal Cells
- Projection neurons in cerebral cortex hippocampus. Pyramidal cells a pyramid-shaped soma with apex apical dendrite pointed toward pial surface and other dendrites an axon emerging from base. The axons may have local collaterals but also project outside their cortical region.