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Definition of Acarina
1. Noun. Mites and ticks.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Arachnida, Class Arachnida
Member holonyms: Acarine, Tick, Family Ixodidae, Ixodidae, Argasidae, Family Argasidae, Mite, Acaridae, Family Acaridae, Family Trombidiidae, Trombidiidae, Family Trombiculidae, Trombiculidae, Family Sarcoptidae, Sarcoptidae, Acarus, Genus Acarus, Family Tetranychidae, Tetranychidae
Definition of Acarina
1. n. pl. The group of Arachnida which includes the mites and ticks. Many species are parasitic, and cause diseases like the itch and mange.
Medical Definition of Acarina
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Acarina
Literary usage of Acarina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Parasites of Man: A Handbook for Students and Medical Men by Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun, Pauline Falcke, Louis Westenra Sambon, Frederick Vincent Theobald (1908)
"[This is only so in the acarina or Mites, not in the Araneida or spiders.—FVT]
3 [The true character of the Arachnoidea is the presence of four pairs of ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1868)
"The acarina pass through a series of metamorphoses—a hexapod larva issuing from
... The eggs of these acarina are of a cylindroid form with rounded ends, ..."
3. Text-book of the Embryology of Invertebrates by Eugen Korschelt, Karl Heider, Edward Laurens Mark, William McMichael Woodworth, Matilda Bernard, Martin Fountain Woodward (1899)
"He regards them as modi tied nephridia.] VII. acarina. Oviposition. The majority
of the acarina lay eggs, a few (eg, ..."
4. Diseases of the Skin: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners by J. M. H. MacLeod (1921)
"The following is a classification of the principal animal parasites of the skin :
acarina. Hexapoda, Insecta. 'Sarcoptes scabiei. Ixodoidea (Ticks). ..."
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