Sentence examples for crab louse from inspiring English sources

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crab louse

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A parasitic insect, Pthirus pubis, that lives amongst the pubic hairs of humans and feeds on blood.

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Pubic louse, (Phthirus pubis), also called crab louse, sucking louse in the human louse family, Pediculidae (suborder Anoplura, order Phthiraptera), that is found principally at the pubic and perianal areas, occasionally on the hairs of the thighs and abdomen, and rarely on other hairy regions of the human body.

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Her expression, commonly used here to refer to something or someone annoying, roughly translates as "What crab lice".

Recommending "that penetration be avoided" with hustlers "as they are most probably all infected with clap," he may be the only Pulitzer Prize winner to write about A-200, a product used for ridding your body hair of crab lice.

Later, after he confesses that he once got crab lice from a prostitute and passed them along to the boy's stepmother, he asks, "Do you think I'm a monster?" Soon enough, a bit of dialogue as innocent as "Maybe we should go for a hike" becomes a portent of doom.

So get the quim-wig for your scrubby grope-slope croupswarmed, you crab lice of eternity".

While awaiting trial in the county jail, Parsons became afflicted with a severe case of crab lice.

But between Billings and Great Falls and Ashland and Bellingham, between the Fireman's giving everyone crab lice and the Army Soldier's snoring, Mister Elegant was feeling wore out.

Special treatment has to be taken for treating crab lice in the eyebrows and eyelashes.

Crab lice have similar characteristics to crabs – that is, they have stereotypical claws that are normally associated with ordinary aquatic crabs.

Crab lice may exist in two forms on your body: Live lice form (which can be seen crawling on the infected area).

Pediculosis (crabs, lice, nits), which affects hairy areas, is diagnosed by identifying the egg capsules (nits) that are cemented to the hair shaft.

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