pediculus

Then looked up at Pediculus who thrust down the cruelest thumb of all.

The regular diminutive pediculus is also used for "foot stalk".

I urge the more strongly, because there is a louse crawling up your collar - pediculus vestimenti seeking promotion to p.

That louse would have belonged to the genus Pediculus and evolved into two sister species when the human and chimp lineages parted ways.

"Hail, Centurion Pediculus, all hail.

The disease is caused by the parasite Rickettsia quintana, and transmitted to humans by the body louse Pediculus humanus corporis.

Trench fever, produced by Bartonella quintana infection, is transmitted by the human body louse Pediculus humanus corporis.

But Pediculus then fell extinct in its gorilla hosts, according to Dr. Reed's reconstruction, and Phthirus vanished from the chimp-human ancestor.

Polyphemus exiguus inhabits open zones in the Caspian Sea, while Polyphemus pediculus exists throughout the Holarctic.

Pusula pediculus, common name the "coffee bean trivia", is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Triviidae, the false cowries or trivias.

A perplexity that louse specialists have not yet resolved is that the pubic louse belongs to a different genus from Pediculus, being known to taxonomists as Phthirus pubis.

Next, chimps and humans diverged, and their joint louse diverged with them into Pediculus humanus and Pediculus schaeffi.

There are two species, P. exiguus and P. pediculus, although allopatric speciation has resulted in a number of cryptic species of P. pediculus.

The pedicles (from Latin pediculus, "small foot") are two short, thick processes, which project dorsally, one on either side, from the superior part of the vertebral body at the junction of its posterior and lateral surfaces.

Pediculosis capitis (also known as head lice infestation, "nits" and cooties) is a human medical condition caused by the colonization of the hair and skin by the parasitic insect Pediculus humanus capitis-the head louse.