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hyalomma (medicine)


Hyalomma


An Old World genus (about 21 species) of large ixodid ticks with submarginal eyes, coalesced festoons, an ornate scutum, and a long rostrum. Adults parasitise all domestic animals and a wide variety of wild animals; larvae or nymphs may parasitise small mammals, birds, and reptiles. Species harbor a great variety of pathogens of humans and animals, and also cause considerable mechanical injury.

Origin: hyalo-+ G. Omma, eye


provect (iou)



provect verb trans. LME.
[Latin provect- pa. ppl stem of provehere, formed as PRO-1 + vehere carry.]
Carry forward or onward (lit. & fig.). LME-L18.
Philology. Change or mutate (a consonant) according to Grimm's Law; esp. in Celtic Languages, change (a voiced consonant) into the corresponding voiceless consonant. Usu. in pass. Now rare. M19.