chigoe

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C0290700 (chĭg′ō, chē′gō)n.1. A small tropical flea (Tunga penetrans), the fertilized female of which burrows under the skin of humans and other mammals, causing intense irritation and sores that may become severely infected. Also called chigger, jigger², sand flea.2. See chigger.

[Of Cariban origin; akin to Akawaiio (Cariban language of Guyana) chiigò.]

chigoe

(ˈtʃɪɡəʊ) n1. (Animals) Also called: chigger, jigger or sand flea a tropical flea, Tunga penetrans, the female of which lives on or burrows into the skin of its host, which includes man2. (Animals) another name for chigger¹[C17: from Carib chigo]

chig•oe

(ˈtʃɪg oʊ)

n. a flea, Tunga penetrans, of tropical America and Africa, the impregnated female of which embeds itself in the skin of humans and animals and becomes distended with eggs. Also called chig′oe flea`, chigger, jigger, sand flea. [1685–95; « Carib]

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chigoe - small tropical flea; the fertile female burrows under the skin of the host including humanschigger, chigoe flea, Tunga penetransflea - any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leapgenus Tunga, Tunga - a genus of Siphonaptera

chigoe

(chĭg`ō) or

jigger,

small parasitic fleaflea,
common name for any of the small, wingless insects of the order Siphonaptera. The adults of both sexes eat only blood and are all external parasites of mammals and birds. Fleas have hard bodies flattened from side to side and piercing and sucking mouthparts.
..... Click the link for more information. (Tunga penetrans) of the tropics and subtropics, including the S United States. Humans and their domestic animals are the main hosts. The fertilized female bores into the flesh (usually of the feet or legs) and feeds on the blood causing a painful, pustulous sore. She retains her eggs in her abdomen, which swells to the size of a pea. The eggs are expelled outside the host and hatch in the soil, undergoing complete metamorphosis. Significant infestations can lead to severe inflammation, ulceration, and fibrosis and in more extreme cases gangrene, sepsis, and even death. The chigoe is sometimes confused with the chiggerchigger,
minute, six-legged, reddish larva of the harvest mite, one of various red bugs widely distributed throughout the world and common in the S United States. Attaching itself by its mouthparts to the skin of its vertebrate host, the chigger injects saliva that destroys
..... Click the link for more information. . The chigoe is classified in the phylum ArthropodaArthropoda
[Gr.,=jointed feet], largest and most diverse animal phylum. The arthropods include crustaceans, insects, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, scorpions, and the extinct trilobites.
..... Click the link for more information. , class Insecta, order Siphonaptera.

chigoe

a tropical flea, Tunga penetrans, the female of which lives on or burrows into the skin of its host, which includes man

chigoe

[chig´o] the sand flea, Tunga penetrans, of tropical and subtropical America and Africa. The pregnant female flea burrows into the skin of the feet, legs, or other part of the body, causing intense irritation and resulting in ulceration, sometimes leading to spontaneous amputation of a digit, if untreated.

chig·oe

(chig'ō), Common name for Tunga penetrans.

chigoe

(chĭg′ō, chē′gō)n.1. A small tropical flea (Tunga penetrans), the fertilized female of which burrows under the skin of humans and other mammals, causing intense irritation and sores that may become severely infected. Also called chigger, jigger², sand flea.2. See chigger.

chig·oe

(chig'ō) Common name for Tunga penetrans.

chigoe

Tunga penetrans , sometimes called the ‘jigger flea’ or chigoe, is common in tropical Africa and tropical America. After mating the female burrows under the skin, often under the big toenail or elsewhere on the feet and grows to the size of a pea because of the enormous swelling of her abdomen from a mass of eggs.

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noun small tropical flea

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