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trombiculid, a. (and n.)|trɒmˈbɪkjʊlɪd|
[a. mod.L. family name Trombiculidæ, f. generic name Trombicula (A. Berlese Acari Nuovi (1905) IV. 155), f. Trombi-dium (see trombidiid a. and n.) + -culus: see -id3.]
Of or pertaining to a mite of the family Trombiculidæ, which includes several species having parasitic larvæ which cause or transmit disease in man and other mammals. Also as n., a mite of this kind.
1950R. Matheson Med. Entomol. (ed. 2) iv. 133 Trombiculid mites and disease: The attacks of various species of mites..usually result, in man, in a marked dermatitis accompanied by intense itching. 1957New Scientist 14 Nov. 33/1 A trombiculid does not feed on a mammal more than once in its lifetime. 1962Gordon & Lavoipierre Entomol. for Students of Med. xlv. 267 The association of trombiculid mites with scrub typhus had been suspected well over a century ago by the Japanese physician Ohtomo. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Med. LXXI. 507 The causative organism..is transmitted by the larvae (or chiggers) of several species of trombiculid mites. |