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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Plural of pediculus, 2.

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Examples

  • The nails may be employed to remove pediculi from the hair and clothes, but with care, that no pile fall off.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • In a great number of animals, -- almost the whole tribe of insects -- we cannot see distinctly by reason of the smallness of the body; still in bees, flies, hornets, and the like we can perceive something pulsating with the help of a magnifying-glass; in pediculi, also, the same thing may be seen, and as the body is transparent, the passage of the food through the intestines, like

    The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

  • Gilbert was a scholastic-humoralistic physician _par excellence_, delighting in superfine distinctions and hair-splitting definitions, and deriving even pediculi from a superfluity of the humors (f. 81d).

    Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

  • They may be complicated by the presence of pediculi and other animal and vegetable parasites.

    Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology

  • Frequent changes of clothing will palliate the annoyance of fleas and pediculi.

    Gilbertus Anglicus Medicine of the Thirteenth Century Henry Ebenezer Handerson

  • Formerly there was much theorizing and discussion regarding the etiology and pathology of plica, but since this mysterious affection has been proved to be nothing more than the product of neglect, and the matting due to the inflammatory exudation, excited by innumerable pediculi, agglutinating the hair together, the term is now scarcely mentioned in dermatologic works.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • Formerly there was much theorizing and discussion regarding the etiology and pathology of plica, but since this mysterious affection has been proved to be nothing more than the product of neglect, and the matting due to the inflammatory exudation, excited by innumerable pediculi, agglutinating the hair together, the term is now scarcely mentioned in dermatologic works.

    Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

  • # -- It is not uncommon for _localised abscesses_ to occur in the subcutaneous cellular tissue in delicate children, and such collections are not infrequently associated with pediculi, impetigo, or chronic dermatitis.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • In the Pharmacopoeia of India is given the formula for a parasiticide ointment, highly recommended in the treatment of pediculi:

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

  • A decoction of the leaves is used as a lotion to destroy "pediculi capitis and pubis," and to wash gangrenous ulcers.

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

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