Pediculosis

Definition: Pediculosis

Pediculosis

Noun

1. Infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching.

Specialty Definitions: Pediculosis

Domain	Definitions
Health	Infestation with lice of the family Pediculidae, especially infestation with Pediculus humanus. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Pediculosis

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Pediculosis is an infestation of lice -- which are parasitic insects -- on the bodies of humans. The condition is more commonly known as head lice, body lice or pubic lice (Phthirus).

Head lice (Pediculus capitis) infestation is very common, experienced by 6-12 million people around the world annually, most of them children aged 3-10 and their families. Females get head lice more often than males, and in the United States, African-Americans rarely get head lice. The reasons for these two facts are not known.

Lice is spread through direct contact with the body, clothing or other personal items of a person already carrying lice.

There are three forms of lice: the nit, the nymph and the adult: nits are the eggs of the louse, the nymph is an immature louse and the adult is a fully-grown louse. Full-grown lice are about the size of a sesame seed.

Head lice and body lice (Pediculus humanus) are similar in appearance, although the head louse is smaller. Pubic lice (Pthirus pubis), on the other hand, are quite distinctive. They have pincer-like claws, making them look like crabs (hence, the nickname for pubic lice: "crabs").

The most common symptom of lice infestation is itching. Excessive scratching of the infested areas can cause sores, which may become infected. In addition, body lice can be a vector for typhus, lapsing fever or trench fever.

Lice is usually treated with medicated shampoos or cream rinses. Nit combs can be used to remove nits from the hair. Lately resistance to the usually used commercial products is rising. A dire need for safe and effective alternatives is necessary.

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Synonym: Pediculosis

Synonym: lousiness (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Pediculosis

English words defined with "pediculosis": pediculosis capitis, pediculosis corporis, pediculosis pubis. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Pediculosis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Danish (pediculosis), Italian (pediculosis), Spanish (pediculosis).

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Commercial Usage: Pediculosis

Domain	Title
Books	Scabies and pediculosis (reference) (more book examples)
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Photo Album: Pediculosis

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	It's lousy in any language. : Pediculosis is one health problem we can do something about.Credit: National Library of Medicine.
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Non-Fiction Usage: Pediculosis

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The diagnosis of pediculosis is best made by finding a live nymph or adult louse on the scalp or in the hair of a person. (references)
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Usage Frequency: Pediculosis

"Pediculosis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pediculosis" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

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Expressions: Pediculosis

Expressions using "pediculosis": pediculosis capitis ♦ pediculosis corporis ♦ pediculosis pubis. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pediculosis

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
pediculosis	81
pediculosis pubis	10
pediculosis capitis	4
de factores la pediculosis	2
es la pediculosis que	2
pediculosis púbica	2
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Modern Translations: Pediculosis

Language		Translations for "pediculosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		të qenët me morra. (various references)

Arabic		‏حشيشة القمل, ‏التقمل الإصابة به. (various references)

Bulgarian		въшливост. (various references)

Danish		phthiriasis, pediculosis, pediculose, lusebefængthed. (various references)

Dutch		pediculosis, pediculose. (various references)

French		phtiriase, pédiculose, pédiculaire (pedicular), maladie pédiculaire. (various references)

German		Pedikulose. (various references)

Greek		φθειρίασις, φθειρίαση (lousiness). (various references)

Hebrew		כ� מת (lousiness, phtiriasis, scabies, vermination). (various references)

Hungarian		tetvesség. (various references)

Italian		pediculosis, pediculosi, ftiriasi. (various references)

Pig Latin		ediculosispay

Portuguese		pediculose. (various references)

Russian		вшивость (lousiness), педикулез. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		vašljivost. (various references)

Spanish		pediculosis. (various references)

Turkish		bitlenme sonucu kaşıntı. (various references)

Ukranian		вошивість, педикульоз. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Pediculosis

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-i-l-o-p-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: clupeoids, delicious, disciples, pulicides, siliceous.
	-3 letters: closeups, clupeids, clupeoid, coulises, coulisse, cuspides, despoils, diecious, diploses, diplosis, disciple, disclose, eclipsis, episodic, euploids, idolises, ploidies, policies, pulicide, sideslip, specious, spicules, suicides, upcoiled.
	-4 letters: cissoid, closeup, clupeid, coupled, couples, cuspids, despoil, diploes, diploic, dipoles, dispels, dispose, doilies, eidolic, escudos, euploid, idolise, iodises, lipides, lipoids, oilcups, oscules.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-i-l-o-p-s-s-u"
	+5 letters: pseudoclassicism.
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