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Definition of Ixodes
1. Noun. Type genus of the family Ixodidae.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Ixodidae, Ixodidae
Member holonyms: Deer Tick, Ixodes Dammini, Ixodes Neotomae, Ixodes Pacificus, Western Black-legged Tick, Black-legged Tick, Ixodes Scapularis, Ixodes Ricinus, Sheep Tick, Sheep-tick, Ixodes Persulcatus, Ixodes Dentatus, Ixodes Spinipalpis
Definition of Ixodes
1. n. A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species of ticks. See Tick, the insect.
Medical Definition of Ixodes
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ixodes
ivylike iwakiite iwan iwans iwi iwis iwys ixabepilone ixc ixia | ixias ixiolite ixl ixnay ixocutis ixodes (current term) ixodian ixodiasis ixodic ixodicide | ixodicides ixodid ixodids ixora ixoras ixtle ixtles ixtli iyoba iyobas |
Literary usage of Ixodes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"Observers have taken the same species on different animals and in various stages
to be distinct, and have described them accordingly. [The name ixodes ..."
2. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1846)
"Observations on the Generation of ixodes. By Prof. GENE. Communicated by ALFRED
TOLK, MRCS THOUGH some time has now elapsed since a paper bearing the above ..."
3. 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 ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin by Louis Adolphus Duhring (1881)
"Packard describes ixodes unipunctata, which has been found on man in ... The common
cattle tick, ixodes bovis, met with in the Western States and in Central ..."
5. On Animal and Vegetable Parasites of the Human Body: A Manual of Their by Friedrich Küchenmeister (1857)
"ixodes Ricinus, the common Wood-Tick = the Dog's Tick, and also perhaps the ...
ixodes marginatus = the Margined Tick. According to Martiny, longish, ..."
6. Diseases of the skin: Their Description, Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment by Henry Radcliffe Crocker (1888)
"ixodes ricinus is the European and temperate zone species. It bores into the skin
with its proboscis, sucks the blood until it is gorged, swells to the size ..."