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Definition of Insect bite
1. Noun. A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin.
Generic synonyms: Harm, Hurt, Injury, Trauma
Specialized synonyms: Bee Sting, Flea Bite, Mosquito Bite
Derivative terms: Bite, Sting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insect Bite
Literary usage of Insect bite
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Law of Workmen's Compensation, Rules of Procedure, Tables, Forms by William Richard Schneider (1922)
"insect bite.—Where the claimant, while working received an insect bite which
became infected from handling of meal, it was held that he received an ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (1893)
"Table I, which follows, shows the deaths which have taken place from snake and
insect bite (for the two are bracketed in returns together) in the Australian ..."
3. Tropical Medicine: With Special Reference to the West Indies, Central by Thomas Wright Jackson (1907)
"... the insect a definite growth and development and then to be again introduced
into man through the insect's bite; to find its way into lymphatic trunks, ..."
4. A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: A Practical Exposition of the Methods by Solomon Solis-Cohen (1903)
"The physiologic mechanism of the insect's bite, however, is not so fully understood
as to render this ..."
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