Texas fever tick
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texas fever tick — noun Usage: usually capitalized T : a cattle tick (Boophilus annulatus) * * * Texas fever tick, the tick that transmits Texas fever; cattle tick … Useful english dictionary
Texas fever — Tex·as fever tek səs n an infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the cattle tick and caused by a sporozoan of the genus Babesia (B. bigemina) that multiplies in the blood and destroys red blood cells called also cattle tick fever, Texas… … Medical dictionary
Texas fever — noun a tick borne disease of cattle Syn: Texas cattle fever … Wiktionary
Texas fever — noun Date: 1866 an infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the cattle tick and caused by a protozoan (Babesia bigemina) that multiplies in the blood and destroys the red blood cells … New Collegiate Dictionary
Texas fever — noun an infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the cattle tick • Hypernyms: ↑animal disease … Useful english dictionary
Texas Animal Health Commission — The Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) is a state agency of Texas. Its headquarters are located at 2105 Kramer Lane in Austin.[1] The commission exists to help protect the health of livestock within the state … Wikipedia
Tick fever — Also known as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, an acute febrile (feverish) disease initially recognized in the Rocky Mountain states, caused by Rickettsia rickettsii transmitted by hard shelled (ixodid) ticks. Occurs only in the Western Hemisphere.… … Medical dictionary
tick fever — any fever transmitted by ticks, as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which attacks humans, or Texas fever, which is confined to some animals, as cattle. [1895 1900] * * * … Universalium
tick fever — noun Date: circa 1897 1. Texas fever 2. a febrile disease (as Rocky Mountain spotted fever) transmitted by the bites of ticks … New Collegiate Dictionary
cattle tick — noun : a tick (Boophilus annulatus) infesting cattle in the warmer parts of the United States and in tropical America and transmitting the parasite that causes Texas fever; broadly : any of several other ticks attacking cattle especially in… … Useful english dictionary
