Definition of Ixodes ricinus

1. Noun. Parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete.

Exact synonyms: Sheep Tick, Sheep-tick
Generic synonyms: Hard Tick, Ixodid
Group relationships: Genus Ixodes, Ixodes

Medical Definition of Ixodes ricinus

1. The castor bean tick, a Euroasian species that infests cattle, sheep, and wild animals, and transmits the virus of louping ill, the piroplasm Babesia divergens, the central European tick-borne encephalitis virus, and the Lyme disease bacterium. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ixodes Ricinus

Iwate
Iwo
Iwo Jima
Ixion
Ixobrychus
Ixobrychus exilis
Ixodes bicornis
Ixodes cookei
Ixodes dammini
Ixodes dentatus
Ixodes holocyclus
Ixodes neotomae
Ixodes pacificus
Ixodes persulcatus
Ixodes pilosus
Ixodes ricinus (current term)
Ixodes scapularis
Ixodes spinipalpis
Ixodidae
Ixodoidea
Iyar
Iyora
Iyyar
Izaak Walton
Izanagi
Izanami
Izedi
Izedis
Izhevsk

Literary usage of Ixodes ricinus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On Diseases of the Skin, Including the Exanthemata by Ferdinand Hebra, Charles Hilton Fagge, Moriz Kaposi (1880)
"Ixodes ricinus, is, according to Martiny,1 egg-shaped, yellowish blood-red in colour; thorax darker; abdomen with fine hairs, its lateral walls curved ..."

2. On Diseases of the Skin, Including the Exanthemata by Ferdinand Hebra, Charles Hilton Fagge, Moriz Kaposi (1880)
"Ixodes ricinus, is, according to Martiny,1 egg-shaped, yellowish blood-red in colour; thorax darker; abdomen with fine hairs, its lateral walls curved ..."

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