Pediculus

Word PEDICULUS
Character 9
Hyphenation pe dic u lus
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Pediculosis corporis is dependent upon the presence of the pediculus corporis (_pediculus vestimenti_), a larger variety than that infesting the scalp. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

Head lice also known as pediculus humanus in medical language are flat, tiny, wingless insects which often find their way into the scalp as parasites. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Pediculosis is a term applied to that condition of local or general cutaneous irritation due to the presence of the animal parasite, the pediculus, or louse. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

Louse, body (pediculus corporis), 274 clothes (pediculus corporis), 274 crab, 275 head (pediculus capitis), 272 ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

Three varieties are presented, named according to the parts involved, pediculosis capitis, pediculosis corporis, and pediculosis pubis; the parasite in each being a distinct species of pediculus. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

Pediculosis pubis is a condition due to the presence of the pediculus pubis, or crab-louse. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

Pediculosis capitis (_pediculosis capillitii_), due to the presence of the pediculus capitis, occurs much more frequently in children than in adults. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

#Is the pediculus pubis found upon any other part of the body? ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

I must get a peep through that microscope of his and see the pediculus which occupies ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

-- I know what I consider your pediculus melittae, I said at length. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

According to Latreille, the _pediculus_ found in the woolly heads of African negroes 'is sufficiently distinct from that of the ❋ Various (1836)

No man of sound information, at the time Nietzsche planned "The Antichrist," actually believed that the world was created in seven days, or that its fauna was once overwhelmed by a flood as a penalty for the sins of man, or that Noah saved the boa constrictor, the prairie dog and the pediculus capitis by taking a pair of each into the ark, or that Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt, or that a fragment of the True Cross could cure hydrophobia. ❋ Unknown (1895)

(_pediculus_), would attack them -- hence our innocent betony's repellent name. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)

_pediculus_ however the former seems more in keeping with the original intent. ❋ Unknown (1873)

No man of sound information, at the time Nietzsche planned "The Antichrist," actually believed that the world was created in seven days, or that its fauna was once overwhelmed by a flood as a penalty for the sins of man, or that Noah saved the boa constrictor, the prairie dog and the _pediculus capitis_ by taking a pair of each into the ark, or that Lot's wife was turned into a pillar of salt, or that a fragment of the True Cross could cure hydrophobia. ❋ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1872)

Even now the Homoeopathists have been introducing the venom of serpents, under the learned title of Lachesis, and outraging human nature with infusions of the pediculus capitis; that is, of course, as we understand their dilutions, the names of these things; for if a fine-tooth-comb insect were drowned in Lake Superior, we cannot agree with them in thinking that every drop of its waters would be impregnated with all the pedicular virtues they so highly value. ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

_pediculus_ -- had no attractions for the gallant guerrillero. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

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