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Definition of Phlebotomus
1. Noun. A mild viral disease transmitted by the bite of the sand fly Phlebotomus papatasii.
2. Noun. Small bloodsucking sand flies that resemble moths.
Generic synonyms: Arthropod Genus
Group relationships: Family Psychodidae, Psychodidae
Member holonyms: Phlebotomus Papatasii, Sand Fly, Sandfly
Medical Definition of Phlebotomus
1. A genus of psychodidae which functions as the vector of a number of pathogenic organisms, including leishmania donovani, leishmania tropica, bartonella bacilliformis, and the pappataci fever virus (sandfly fever group viruses). (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Phlebotomus
Literary usage of Phlebotomus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1919)
"—The range of phlebotomus fever is probably coextensive with that of the insect
... In some phlebotomus-haunted places as many as 50 per cent. of new-comers ..."
2. Medical and Veterinary Entomology: A Textbook for Use in Schools and by William Brodbeck Herms (1915)
"The phlebotomus flies (Fig. 93) belong to the family Psychodidae of the order
Diptera, ... The Transmission of Verruga by phlebotomus. Journ. Amer. Med. ..."
3. Animal Parasites and Human Disease by Asa Crawford Chandler (1922)
"phlebotomus Fever Of the same general nature as yellow fever and dengue, ...
phlebotomus fever begins suddenly, like dengue, with a high fever, ..."
4. Manual of bacteriology by Robert Muir, James Ritchie (1913)
"APPENDIX H. phlebotomus FEVER. IN Dalmatia, Herzegovina, and neighbouring parts
of the Adriatic littoral there occurs a disease known as ..."
5. Spolia Zeylanica by National Museums of Sri Lanka, National Museums of Ceylon (1908)
"SAND-FLIES " (phlebotomus) FROM PERADENIYA. By N. ANNANDALE, D.Sc., FASB,
Superintendent, ... phlebotomus ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"The pathologic microorganisms transmitted by phlebotomus in all parts of the
world so far as known invariably set up an initial fever stage of longer or ..."
7. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1913)
"It was so heavily engorged with blood, supposedly from the sleeper, that it could
not fly. In view of the abundance of phlebotomus ..."
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