1. Parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)
   - black-legged tick

Type of: hard tick, ixodid

Part of: genus Ixodes, Ixodes

Encyclopedia: Ixodes scapularis

• thoracic
• thoracic actinomycosis
• thoracic aorta
• thoracic cavity
• thoracic duct
• thoracic medicine
• thoracic nerve
• thoracic outlet syndrome
• thoracic vein
• thoracic vertebra
• thoracocentesis
• thoracoepigastric vein
• thoracotomy
• thorax
• Thorazine
• Thoreau
• Thoreauvian
• thoria
• thoriate
• thoriated
• thorite
• thorium
• thorium-228
• thorn
• thorn apple