mosquito fever

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• mosquito — [mə skēt′ō] n. pl. mosquitoes or mosquitos [Sp & Port, dim. of mosca < L musca, a fly: see MIDGE] any of a large family (Culicidae) of two winged dipteran insects, the females of which have skin piercing mouthparts used to extract blood from… …   English World dictionary

• Mosquito-borne disease — Endemic range of yellow fever in Africa (2005) …   Wikipedia

• Mosquito — For other uses, see Mosquito (disambiguation). Mosquito A female mosquito Culiseta longiareolata Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

• Fever — Although a fever technically is any body temperature above the normal of 98.6 degrees F. (37 degrees C.), in practice a person is usually not considered to have a significant fever until the temperature is above 100.4 degrees F (38 degrees C.).… …   Medical dictionary

• Mosquito control — Mosquitos are generally considered annoying and may also transmit diseases, thus leading to a variety of human efforts to eradicate or reduce their presence. Mosquito control manages the population of mosquitoes to reduce their damage to human… …   Wikipedia

• Mosquito net — Ceiling hung mosquito netting. Frame hung mosquito netting …   Wikipedia

• Fever, yellow — An acute systemic (bodywide) illness caused by a virus called a Flavivirus. In severe cases, the viral infection causes a high fever, bleeding into the skin, and necrosis (death) of cells in the kidney and liver. The damage done to the liver from …   Medical dictionary

• mosquito — mosquitoey, adj. /meuh skee toh/, n., pl. mosquitoes, mosquitos. 1. any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Culicidae, the females of which suck the blood of animals and humans, some species transmitting certain diseases, as malaria and… …   Universalium

• Mosquito — /meuh skee toh/, n., pl. Mosquitos, (esp. collectively) Mosquito. Miskito. * * * Any of 2,500 dipteran species in the family Culicidae. The females of most species require a blood meal to mature their eggs. Through bloodsucking, females of… …   Universalium

• Fever, West Nile — A febrile disease caused by the West Nile virus that is transmitted from birds to the common Culex mosquito and then to people. The virus is named after the area it was first found in Uganda. West Nile fever occurs in parts of Africa and Asia and …   Medical dictionary

• mosquito — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ infected ▪ malaria … OF MOSQUITOES ▪ swarm VERB + MOSQUITO ▪ swat …   Collocations dictionary