Flea Bite - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: flea biteFlea bite
The bite of a flea or the red spot caused by the bite...
Petechiaelig
Small crimson purple or livid spots like flea bites due to extravasation of blood which appear on the skin in malignant fevers etc...
Flea beetle
A small beetle of the family Halticidaelig of many species They have strong posterior legs and leap like fleas The turnip flea beetle Phyllotreta vittata and that of the grapevine Graptodera chalybea are common injurious species...
flea bitten
Bitten by a flea as a flea bitten face...
Bite
To seize something forcibly with the teeth to wound with the teeth to have the habit of so doing as does the dog bite...
Biting
That bites sharp cutting sarcastic caustic...
Bitingly
In a biting manner...
Bubonic plague
a severe and often fatal disease caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis formerly Pasteurella pestis transmitted to man by the bite of fleas themselves usually infected by biting infected rodents It is characterized by the formation of buboes most notably on the groin and armpits and accompanied by weakness and high fever The disease was known as the black death and was responsible for several devastating plagues throughout the middle ages When lungs became infected the disease was called the pneumonic plague It is still found occasionally in poor areas of undeveloped countries but is rare in developed countries...
Sciniph
Some kind of stinging or biting insect as a flea a gnat a sandfly or the like...
Biter
One who or that which bites that which bites often or is inclined to bite as a dog or fish...
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