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Definition of Bedbugs
1. bedbug [n] - See also: bedbug
Medical Definition of Bedbugs
1. Bugs of the family cimicidae, genus cimex. They are flattened, oval, reddish insects which inhabit houses, wallpaper, furniture, and beds. C. Lectularius, of temperate regions, is the common bedbug that attacks man and is frequently a serious pest in houses, hotels, barracks, and other living quarters. It also attacks animals other than man. C. Rotundatus (hemipterus) of the tropics, also bites man. Other species of this family attack bats and various birds. Although bedbugs attack man when he is sleeping only to obtain a meal of blood, man himself does not transport the infestation from place to place: furnishings removed for cleaning are likely to result in infestation. Experiments have shown that bedbugs can transmit a variety of diseases, but they are not normal vectors under natural conditions. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedbugs
Literary usage of Bedbugs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"The bedbugs are normally intermittent parasites, but may undergo long periods of
starvation, at least one year. Systematic.—The family Cimicidae belongs to ..."
2. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"The most important of these are the bedbugs, which are found all over the world in
... There are few objects which are more disgusting than bedbugs to good ..."
3. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1921)
"bedbugs Cimex lectularius has been carried by man to all. parts of the inhabited
... The presence of bedbugs in a house is not necessarily an indication of ..."
4. Insects and disease: A Popular Account of the Way in which Insects May by Rennie Wilbur Doane (1910)
"bedbugs In the order Hemiptera, or the true "bugs" in an entomological sense, we
find a few forms that may carry disease. The bedbug (Fig. ..."
5. Prevention of Disease and Care of the Sick: How to Keep Well and what to Do by William Gordon Stimpson, Milton Hugh Foster (1919)
"... country should stop and search their bodies every two or three hours and remove
any ticks that may have attached themselves thereto. bedbugs. ..."
6. Receipts and Remedies: Useful Hints for Everyone on Health, Beauty, Clothing by Louis Andrew Flemming (1908)
"Fumigating with sulphur is a very effective method of ridding a room of bedbugs.
The furniture should be taken out of the room, ..."
7. The Care of Troops (for Line Officers) by Frederick Stevens Macy (1917)
"bedbugs.—bedbugs are such thin, flat creatures that they can conceal themselves
in the very finest cracks. They infest furniture, particularly wooden beds, ..."
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