TICK

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1894 · p. 28

n. Ti2k. Gr., ifuiSrjs. Lat., ixodes. Fr., tique. Ger., Zecke. A name common to certain small parasitical Arachnid a constituting the section Ixodes (called also Suctoria) of the family Acarides. [G, 60.] See IXODES and its subheadings. Itch t. See ACARUS scabiei. [s. 624]