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2. Verb. (third-person singular of tick) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ticks

1. tick [v] - See also: tick

Medical Definition of Ticks

1. Blood-sucking acarid parasites of the suborder ixodedes, superfamily ixodoidea. The ticks are larger than their relatives, the mites. They penetrate the skin of their host by means of highly specialised, hooked mouth parts and feed on its blood. Many species can live for long periods, well over a year, between feedings. Ticks attack all groups of terrestrial vertebrates. In man they are responsible for many tick-borne diseases, including the transmission of rocky mountain spotted fever, tularaemia, babesiosis, and relapsing fever. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ticks

Literary usage of Ticks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"These smaller animals are too agile to permit the adult ticks to remain upon them. Unquestionably the great bulk of fever ticks (Dermacentor ..."

2. Code of Federal Regulations, Containing a Codification of Documents of by Federal Register Division, United States Federal Register Division, United States (1907)
"The method being followed on one large farm heavily infested with ticks ... The cattle are then free from ticks, and on November 10 they are moved to the ..."

3. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1890)
"In the third field containing southern cattle without ticks no disease could ... These two tests pointed directly to ticks as being in some way the cause of ..."

4. Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical, Historical and Topographical by James Emerson Tennent (1859)
"ticks.—ticks are to be classed amongst the intolerable nuisances to the Ceylon traveller. They live in immense numbers on the ..."

5. Farm and Garden Rule-book: A Manual of Ready Rules and Reference with by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1911)
"Animals may be freed of ticks in two ways. They may be treated with an agent that will destroy all the ticks present, or they may be rotated at proper ..."

6. Ceylon: An Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, and Topographical by James Emerson Tennent (1860)
"ticks.—ticks are to be classed among the intolerable nuisances to the Ceylon traveller. They live in immense numbers in the ..."

7. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"One of the most remarkable features of the bird ticks (as they are ... Bird ticks are not very prolific; only a single young is brought forth at a birth. ..."

8. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"One of the most remarkable features of the bird ticks (as they are ... Bird ticks are not very prolific; only a single young is brought forth at a birth. ..."

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