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Definition of Ixodes ricinus
1. Noun. Parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans; can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system); a vector for Lyme disease spirochete.
Generic synonyms: Hard Tick, Ixodid
Group relationships: Genus Ixodes, Ixodes
Medical Definition of Ixodes ricinus
1. The castor bean tick, a Euroasian species that infests cattle, sheep, and wild animals, and transmits the virus of louping ill, the piroplasm Babesia divergens, the central European tick-borne encephalitis virus, and the Lyme disease bacterium. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ixodes Ricinus
Literary usage of Ixodes ricinus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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 ..."
2. 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 ..."
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