(n.) Any one of numerous species of small, wingless, suctorial, parasitic insects belonging to a tribe (Pediculina), now usually regarded as degraded Hemiptera. To this group belong of the lice of man and other mammals; as, the head louse of man (Pediculus capitis), the body louse (P. vestimenti), and the crab louse (Phthirius pubis), and many others. See Crab louse, Dog louse, Cattle louse, etc., under Crab, Dog, etc.
(n.) Any one of numerous small mandibulate insects, mostly parasitic on birds, and feeding on the feathers. They are known as Mallophaga, or bird lice, though some occur on the hair of mammals. They are usually regarded as degraded Pseudoneuroptera. See Mallophaga.
(n.) Any one of the numerous species of aphids, or plant lice. See Aphid.
(n.) Any small crustacean parasitic on fishes. See Branchiura, and Ichthvophthira.
(v. t.) To clean from lice.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prevalence of head louse Pediculus capitis Deg.
(2) The bushbuck were infested with 8 ixodid tick species, 2 louse species and a louse-fly species.
(3) The louse (Menacanthus stramineus) and the lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum) were the only parasites recovered.
(4) The common duiker harboured 7 tick species and 2 louse species.
(5) The ultrastructure of the Malpighian tubes in human louse Pediculus humanus corporis has been studied.
(6) In one brief moment a soldier thoughtfully removes a louse from his girl’s army jacket before kissing her.
(7) The louse-fly, Lipoptena paradoxa, was recovered from some of the bushbuck from October to May.
(8) Some of the treated cows were identified as carriers of louse infestation (subgroups A1 and C1), while others were noncarriers (subgroups A2 and C2).
(9) Besides other factors for such a high prevalence, the lack of health education of family members may play a crucial role in transference and louse infestation.
(10) A prospective study of 120 louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) patient admitted to Mekele Regional Hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia from September to November 1991 was done.
(11) However, juvenile wild fish, which migrate from the rivers to the sea each spring, are simply not designed to cope with more than the odd louse.
(12) One hundred and sixty patients with louse-borne relapsing fever were treated with a combination therapy of procaine penicillin and tetracycline.
(13) Based on evidence of intercellular cohesion, as seen in the histologic results, the patients were placed into two subtypes, compact growth type and louse structure type.
(14) At the end of the trial the mean red blood cell and mean total blood content of one louse was evaluated at 0.157 microliters and 0.443 microliters respectively, using 51Cr, and 0.120 microliters and 0.350 microliters respectively, using 59Fe.
(15) New host records are given for two species of Acari, one of louse, and one of flea.
(16) This sucking louse is typically parasitic on domestic rats, which are murid rodents.
(17) To evaluate the efficacy and to determine the minimum effective dosage of four pediculicides against head louse infestation, as well as to select a safe, effective, practical, and cheap agent, 1,657 infested school children in 25 primary schools in Szu-Hu, Kou-Hu, and Ku-Keng Districts of Yunlin County were treated and 1,611 of them were examined.
(18) Three 2-(2-phenylethyl) chromone derivatives were isolated from the ethyl acetate soluble fraction of the alcoholic extract of Aquilaria sinensis (Lous.)
(19) Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) is an acute febrile illness endemic Ethiopia.
(20) During recent archaeological excavations in Viking Greenland, specimens of the human flea, Pulex irritans L., and the body louse, Pediculus humanus humanus L., were recovered from several farmsteads.
Lousy
Definition:
(a.) Infested with lice.
(a.) Mean; contemptible; as, lousy knave.
Example Sentences:
(1) The centralised economic and political model is producing a lousy outcome that is unsustainable and must reform whatever happens next September.
(2) The first parasitic diseases to receive attention were usually those with distinctive characteristics as well as serious consequences, such as "gapes" and lousiness.
(3) The teams in the Worst Division In Professional Sports have been so lousy that a Least Worst Team hasn't even emerged when the teams play each other.
(4) (Hollande is already getting the T-shirt printed: "I intervened in Mali and all I got was this lousy camel.")
(5) They tried to teach us English, but it never worked, because the French had given us their lousy accent during colonisation.
(6) Contrary to popular belief, most cafes in Paris sell lousy coffee, but the barista revolution is arriving, and Nicolas Piegay opened the KB after discovering specialist coffee bars in Australia.
(7) As much as I hate those lousy – I love to hear them laugh!"
(8) Consequently the balance of employment has shifted upwards and downwards with less in between; as Manning puts it, the labour market has been polarising into "lovely and lousy jobs ".
(9) Real politics is mostly one damn thing after another – a big Commons vote, a shabby reselection campaign in Walthamstow , a lousy byelection result in Oldham .
(10) Regardless of the Yankees’ bad luck, the frustrated Hal is basically saying “I spent $214.8m and all I got was this lousy baseball team”.
(11) It produced 2,703kW hours (kWh) in its second full year (to 5 April), only 1% lower than the 2,730 kWh it produced in the first year, and that in spite of a lousy 2008 summer.
(12) Ed Balls has brushed off accusations that raising the top rate of tax to 50p is an anti-business move, as a second former minister from the last government accused the shadow chancellor of "lousy economics".
(13) The pay is lousy, the travel is brutal, the hours don’t work with being the primary parent, there’s no security, clear career path, sick-leave or holiday pay or maternity leave.
(14) If I dislike someone, it is all but impossible to conceal the fact, which is why I made a lousy waitress.
(15) But it has been criticised for providing a lousy deal for taxpayers by being too generous to the private contractors.
(16) We are in a lousy period because there are a lot of injuries,” he said.
(17) This isn't the first time Obama has turned in a lousy debate performance.
(18) In this two-hour near-monologue Bates played the fallen actor-hero forever ranting about being forced to work on tiny stages for lousy wages in front of philistines.
(19) lousiness, measures to detect the source of infection, respectively patients with louse-borne typhus and Brill-Zinsser disease.
(20) But to America’s unions, that misstates the state of play – they say the deal is a lousy one when the administration should be negotiating a good one.