body louse

noun

First recorded in 1565–75

Next in line is the body louse—the only dangerous member of the troika.

Brisk as a body-louse she trips,Clean as a penny drest; Sweet as a rose her breath and lips,Round as the globe her breast.

It is a disease of poverty and war, and is spread largely by the body-louse, as happened in Serbia in 1915.

The louse commonly present is the body louse, and it lays its eggs in the seams of the uniforms and on the underclothes.

The causative organism of typhus fever is thus transmitted by the body louse.

The body louse lives in the folds and seams of the clothing of its host, passing to the skin only when it wishes to feed.

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