acarus
Americannoun
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acari
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noun
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Etymology
Origin of acarus
1650–60; < New Latin < Greek ákari mite
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Waterton says — 'The atmosphere of spirit of turpentine will allow neither acarus nor any insect to live in it.'
The red spider is not correctly speaking an insect, though it is commonly spoken of as such, neither is it a spider, as its name would imply, but an acarus or mite.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 by Various
This is a cutaneous disease, analogous to the mange in horses and the itch in man, and is caused and propagated by a minute insect, the acarus.
From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert
Malady: Autumn mange.—This parasite is a brick-red acarus, visible to the naked eye on a dark ground, and living on green vegetation in many localities.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
The disease varies, however, according to the species of acarus which infests the skin, so that we must treat of several different kinds of acariasis.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
Having the skin of both hands filled with acari, I had not the patience to wait the end of an operation, which had already lasted till late at night.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
The acari can be readily demonstrated microscopically in scrapings of the skin, treated with liquor potassæ.
From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by Eyre, J. W. H. (John William Henry)
Like other acari, this is wonderfully prolific, a new generation of fifteen individuals being possible every fifteen days, so that in three months the offspring of a single pair may produce generations aggregating 1,500,000 young.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.
Living beings are stimulated into existence, the acari Crossii appear in numbers!
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
Bosc, Huzard, Latreille, Duméril, and many other naturalists, subsequently found these acari in the eruptive diseases of many animals.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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