Definition of Pedicular

1. a. Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper (phthiriasis); lousy.

Definition of Pedicular

1. Adjective. Of or relating to lice. ¹

2. Adjective. Having the lousy distemper, phthiriasis. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pedicular

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Pedicular

1. Relating to pediculi, or lice. Origin: L. Pedicularis (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedicular

pedicabs
pedicel
pedicellaria
pedicellariae
pedicellate
pedicellation
pedicellina
pedicels
pedicle
pedicle flap
pedicle graft
pedicle of arch of vertebra
pedicled
pedicles
pedicular (current term)
pediculate
pediculates
pediculati
pediculation
pediculi
pediculicide
pediculina
pediculophobia
pediculoses
pediculosis
pediculosis capitis
pediculosis corporis
pediculosis palpebrarum

Literary usage of Pedicular

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Psychological Medicine by William Alexander Hammond (1872)
"The author ridicules the idea that prurigo is of pedicular origin, and is positive in his belief that " the basis of the disease is a paresis, a disorder of ..."

2. The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal by Medical College of Georgia (1855)
"treatment of pedicular maladies among animals. He has found that it destroys the parasites in the*e diseases, more surely, and with more safety to the ..."

3. On Diseases of the Skin, Including the Exanthemata by Ferdinand Hebra, Charles Hilton Fagge, Moriz Kaposi (1880)
"It is, therefore, clear that pedicular disease originates in the deeper parts of the skin, where it is, at any rate, possible that ..."

4. History of Rome and the Roman People: From Its Origin to the Establishment by Victor Duruy (1884)
"105) speaks of a fever which carried him off in a single night, and Plutarch, besides the pedicular disease, speaks of an internal abscess which burst ..."

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