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Definition of Body louse
1. Noun. A parasitic louse that infests the body of human beings.
Generic synonyms: Louse, Sucking Louse
Group relationships: Genus Pediculus, Pediculus
Definition of Body louse
1. Noun. A parasitic insect, ''Pediculus humanus corporis'', that infests the body and clothes of humans and feeds on blood. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Body Louse
Literary usage of Body louse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Animal and Vegetable Parasites of the Human Body: A Manual of Their by Friedrich Küchenmeister (1857)
"The Body-Louse = Pediculus vestimenti. (Tab. IX, fig. 13.) Synon. ... The principal
distinction between the body-louse and the head-louse lies in the size; ..."
2. A Textbook of Bacteriology: A Practical Treatise for Students and by Hans Zinsser, Frederick Fuller Russell (1922)
"It is the first two of these, the body louse and the head louse with which sanitarians
... The body louse prefers to lay its eggs on the inner surfaces of ..."
3. Sanitary Entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"Control of Body Lou-se The body louse occasionally lays its eggs on the hairs of
the body, but most of the measures involving treatment of the body are ..."
4. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"These latter authors have recently shown that the head louse (Pediculus capitis)
may also transmit the infection. The rôle of the body louse in the ..."
5. Chemical and microscopical diagnosis by Francis Carter Wood (1909)
"... but occasionally is found in other portions of the body. • Pediculus
vestimenti (body louse).—The parasite measures from 2 to 4 mm. in length Fio. 118. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Two species of Pediculus are found on tho human body, and are known ordinarily
as the-head-louse (P. capitis) and the body-louse (P. ..."
7. Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard by Ezra Dwight Sanderson (1921)
"... inguinalis) The body louse is the "cootie" of the "AEF" or the "gray- back"
of the lumber camps. It attaches itself to clothing, concealing itself in ..."
8. Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard by Ezra Dwight Sanderson (1921)
"... inguinalis] The body louse is the "cootie" of the "AEF" or the "gray- back"
of the lumber camps. It attaches itself to clothing, concealing itself in ..."
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