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单词 xenopsylla
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Example sentences from the Web for Xenopsylla

  • A flea, Xenopsylla cheopis, from an infected little mammal—usually a rat—can hop from the dying rat onto a human and bite it.

    It’s Not Time to Worry About China’s Plague Just Yet|Kent Sepkowitz|July 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
  • A plague flea (Xenopsylla) has been found on an African swift.

    The Flea|Harold Russell
  • A flea killed by the disinfecting mixture at this desk was identified at the Bureau of Science as a rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis).

    Plague|Thomas Wright Jackson

Xenopsylla

[ zĕn′ŏp-sĭlə, zĕn′ə-sĭlə ]

n.

A genus of fleas parasitic on rats and involved in the transmission of bubonic plague.

Words nearby Xenopsylla

xenophobe, xenophobia, xenophobic, Xenophon, xenophthalmia, Xenopsylla, xenotransplant, xenotransplantation, xenotropic virus, xeranthemum, xerarch
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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