单词 | phlebotomus |
释义 | Phlebotomusn. Entomology and Medicine. A cosmopolitan genus of small, very hairy sandflies (family Psychodidae), many of which are vectors of infectious diseases such as leishmaniasis and sandfly (phlebotomus) fever; (also phlebotomus) a sandfly of this genus. ΚΠ 1899 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. VI. vii. 470 A South European form is a blood-sucker, and has received the appropriate name of Phlebotomus. 1910 Jrnl. Royal Army Med. Corps 14 242 The phlebotomi select dark corners and recesses. 1915 Science 18 June 916/1 Dr. Townsend's lecture was illustrated by lantern slides..of the micro-pathology of the Phlebotomus. 1929 E. R. Stitt Diagnostics & Treatm. Trop. Dis. (ed. 5) 360 If breeding is thus prevented 200 to 300 feet from the house it keeps the female phlebotomus from getting a blood feeding. 1944 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 1 July 606/2 The ova from thousands of phlebotomi which had been fed on patients with the disease. 1976 G. M. Edington & H. M. Gilles Pathol. in Tropics (ed. 2) 228 The vectors are various species of Phlebotomus. 1993 Med. & Vet. Entomol. 17 1/2 The sandfly vectors of various Leishmania spp. comprise more than 40 species of Phlebotomus in the Old World and 30 species of Lutzomyia in the Americas. Compounds phlebotomus fever n. a viral disease, endemic in the Mediterranean region, transmitted by the sandfly Phlebotomus papatasi, and characterized by fever, malaise, headache, and eye pain typically lasting for three days; also called sandfly fever. ΚΠ 1910 Jrnl. Royal Army Med. Corps 14 236 It seems probable that phlebotomus fever was epidemic at the same time as malaria. 1918 Chambers's Jrnl. Dec. 773/1 We have..no sand-fly to spread phlebotomus-fever. 1944 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 1 July 603/1 Phlebotomus fever, also commonly called pappataci or sandfly fever, is a specific febrile disease of virus etiology which is of considerable military importance. 1997 GAO Rep. (Nexis) 23 June Sandfly fever (phlebotomus fever)..has caused substantial epidemics in foreign military forces in the Middle East. phlebotomus fly n. a sandfly of the genus Phlebotomus. ΚΠ 1911 Lancet 30 Dec. 1867/1 A series of observations by Captain P. J. Marett on the life history of the phlebotomus fly in Malta. 1972 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 52 244/2 About three weeks after the bite of an infected Phlebotomus fly, severe bone pain, and pronounced hemolytic anemia (Oroya fever) occur. 2003 Knoxville News-Sentinel (Nexis) 3 May b1 Parallel veins in the wings, hair-like wings, biting mouth marks and wings that fold like a tent. All signs that the bugs are in fact phlebotomus flies. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1899 |
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