Definition of Ixodes

1. Noun. Type genus of the family Ixodidae.


Definition of Ixodes

1. n. A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species of ticks. See Tick, the insect.

Medical Definition of Ixodes

1. A genus of parasitic Acarina, which includes various species of ticks. Origin: NL, fr. Gr. Like birdlime; birdlime + form. (30 Mar 1998)

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 ..."

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