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A Brazilian fly whose larvae live in the skin of man and animals, producing painful sores.
Any one of several species of ticks of the genus Ixodes whose young cling to bushes, but quickly fasten themselves upon the bodies of any animal with which they come in contact. When they attach themselves to the human body they often produce troublesome sores. The common species of the Northern United States is Ixodes unipunctata.
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An assistant in a hospital, whose office it is to dress wounds, sores, etc.
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A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment.
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A blue coloring matter found in the pus from old sores, supposed to be formed through the agency of a species of bacterium (Bacillus pyocyaneus).
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An adhesive composition or substance to be applied to wounds or sores; a healing ointment.
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Full of sores; leprous.
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Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
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Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles; marked with red sores; pimpled and blotched.
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Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.
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Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment.
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Any botfly larva which burrows in or beneath the skin of domestic and wild animals, thus producing sores. They belong to various species of Hypoderma and allied genera. Domestic cattle are often infested by a large species. See Gadfly. Called also warble, and worble.
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A soft composition, as of bread, bran, or a mucilaginous substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm.
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A species of flea (Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger.
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A yellow, crystalline, volatile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.
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