Sentence examples for body louse from inspiring English sources
noun
A parasitic insect, , that infests the body and clothes of humans and feeds on blood.
The body louse is transferred by direct contact.
The body louse, unlike all other kinds that infect mammals, clings to clothing, not hair.
Birds with white plumage, such as swans, have a white body louse, while the dark-plumaged coot has an almost black body louse.
The human body louse lays its eggs on clothing next to the skin.
In order to prevent outbreaks of epidemic typhus, however, the body louse must be eliminated.
His method too is indirect: it involves dating the evolution of the human body louse, which infests only clothes.
There are two subspecies, Pediculus humanus capitis, the head louse, and P. humanus humanus, the body louse, or cootie.
The body louse is larger than the head louse and ranges in colour from white to brown.
Humans have the distinction of being host to three different kinds: the head louse, the body louse and the pubic louse.
The louse most nearly related to the human body louse is that of the chimpanzee, and to the human pubic louse that of the gorilla.
It is transmitted from one person to another by a body louse harbouring the causative organism, the rickettsial bacterium Rochalimaea (formerly Rickettsia) quintana.
