sarcoptes

IPA: sɑrkɑpts

Examples of "sarcoptes" in Sentences

Mange is caused by scabies, or sarcoptes scabiei, a small mite.
To the invasion of the cutaneous structures by an animal parasite, the sarcoptes scabiei (_acarus scabiei_).
Once when the sarcoptes scabei had affected certain individuals of both societies, so that the authorities quarantined them at Craig's, a farm house a mile from the town, in sulphurous loneliness, the other students were merry over the incident.
I remember that on one sad occasion a squad of unfortunates, among them one destined to be an eminent Confederate general, whose hands bore the signs of the presence of the dreaded sarcoptes scabei, were quarantined at this remote spot in sulphurous loneliness, under the sway of the terrible demon, "Old Scratch"