Ordinarily, allergy to animals is due to either their fine dander which becomes aerosolized or to the exoskeleta, pupae, or feces of their ectoparasites.
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Ectoparasite
//ˌɛktə(ʊ)ˈpæɹəˌsaɪt//
Synonyms for "ectoparasite" (4 found)
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14 translations across 12 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 外寄生虫 noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
Czech
1 entries- ektoparazit noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
Dutch
1 entries- ectoparasiet noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
Finnish
3 entries- ektoparasiitti noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
- pintaloinen noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
- ulkoloinen noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
German
1 entries- Ektoparasit noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
Irish
1 entries- eicteaparaisít noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
Italian
1 entries- dermatozoo noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
Latvian
1 entries- ektoparazīts noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
Lithuanian
1 entries- ektoparazitas noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
Portuguese
1 entries- ectoparasita noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
Spanish
1 entries- ectoparásito noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
Tamil
1 entries- புற ஒட்டுண்ணி noun (parasite living on the surface of host organism)
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Many of the chewing lice are highly host specific, but a few may occur on a variety of not more than a half dozen related host species. They feed on skin (epidermal cells), hair, feathers, body oils and secretions, dried blood (wounds), and even other ectoparasites, such as mites. Chewing lice are unable to survive for more than a day or two off the host and their dispersal is through direct contact of host animals.
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I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood. […] Bedbugs win neither praise for their sophisticated technique, nor very much respect for the fact that they don’t carry diseases, as most bloodsucking human ectoparasites do.
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