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Meaning of "soft tick" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOFT TICK

soft tick  [sɒft tɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOFT TICK

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Soft tick is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SOFT TICK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

soft tick

Argasidae

The Argasidae are a family of ticks containing the soft ticks. They lack the hard scutum present in the hard ticks. The capitulum is located on the underside of the animal's body and is not readily visible. The family contains 193 species, although the composition of the genera is less certain, and more study is needed before the genera can become stable. The currently accepted genera are Antricola, Argas, Nothaspis, Ornithodoros, and Otobius.

Definition of soft tick in the English dictionary

The definition of soft tick in the dictionary is any of various small parasitic arachnids of the family Argasidae, typically living on the skin of warm-blooded animals and feeding on the blood and tissues of their hosts: order Acarina.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SOFT TICK


acoustic
əˈkuːstɪk
artistic
ɑːˈtɪstɪk
athletic
æθˈlɛtɪk
Atlantic
ətˈlæntɪk
authentic
ɔːˈθɛntɪk
automatic
ˌɔːtəˈmætɪk
democratic
ˌdɛməˈkrætɪk
diagnostic
ˌdaɪəɡˈnɒstɪk
domestic
dəˈmɛstɪk
dramatic
drəˈmætɪk
erotic
ɪˈrɒtɪk
exotic
ɪɡˈzɒtɪk
fantastic
fænˈtæstɪk
holistic
həʊˈlɪstɪk
hydrostatic
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈstætɪk
magnetic
mæɡˈnɛtɪk
plastic
ˈplæstɪk
romantic
rəʊˈmæntɪk
static
ˈstætɪk
stick
stɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOFT TICK

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soft sawder
soft science
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soft skills
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soft target
soft tissue
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soft X-rays

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOFT TICK

candlestick
chapstick
dipstick
drumstick
gear stick
hard tick
harvest tick
hockey stick
incense stick
joystick
lipstick
Memory Stick
nonstick
sheep tick
slapstick
tick
uptick
walking stick
what makes someone tick
wrong end of the stick

Synonyms and antonyms of soft tick in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «soft tick» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOFT TICK

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The translations of soft tick from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «soft tick» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

软蜱
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

garrapata blanda
570 millions of speakers

English

soft tick
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मुलायम टिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

علامة الناعمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

мягкая тик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

carrapato mole
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

নরম টিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tique molle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Semak lembut
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lederzecke
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

軟ダニ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

소프트 틱
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Obah alus
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đánh dấu mềm
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மென்மையான டிக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मऊ टिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Yumuşak kene
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tick morbido
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

miękkie tik
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

м´яка тик
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

căpușă moale
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μαλακό τσιμπούρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sagte bosluise
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

mjuka fästingen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

myk tick
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SOFT TICK»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOFT TICK»

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An Introduction to Parasitology
2.15 Acari: a mange mite, a soft tick and a hard tick. All have a more or less globular body without external divisions. Ticks have a toothed hypostome lacking in mites. The hypostome is ventral in soft ticks but terminal in hard ticks, which also ...
Bernard E. Matthews, 1998
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Ticks and Tick-Borne Pathogens
D. and Yamakawa, M. 2001. Two isoforms of a member of the arthropod defensin family from the soft tick, Orniihodoros moubata (Acari: Argasidae). Insect Biochem . Mol. Biol. 31: 747-751. Nakajima. Y.. Ogihara, K., Taylor, D. and Yamakawa, ...
Frans Jongejan, W. Reuben Kaufman, 2003
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Cellular and Humoral Immune Responses of Rickettsia ...
In addition to transmission of pathogenic microbes, soft tick bites can be painful and cause allergic reactions in susceptible individuals that range from mild inflammation to anaphylaxis (Humphery- Smith et al. 1991, Hilger et al. 2005). Despite ...
Joshua Todd Mattila, 2006
4
Carrier Proteins: Advances in Research and Application: 2011 ...
“Savicalin, is a lipocalin found in the hemocytes of the soft tick, Ornithodoros savignyi. It could be assigned to the tick lipocalin family based on BLAST analysis,” scientists in Pretoria, South Africa report. “Savicalin is the first non- salivary gland ...
‎2012
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Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases: Geographical Distribution and ...
Dautel, H., Kahl, O. and KnLille, W. (1991) The soft tick, Argas reflexus (Acari, Argasidae) in urban environ— ments and its medical significance in Berlin (West) .journal ofApp/ied Entomology 1 1, 3804390. Dautel, H., Kahl, O., Scheurer, S. and ...
Mowafak Dauod Salman, Jordi Tarrés-Call, Agustín Estrada-Peña, 2013
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Biology of Disease Vectors
SOFT-TICK FEEDING Soft ticks differ from hard ticks in their feeding strategy. Generally, soft ticks are found in the nests or beds of their hosts, and, unlike many of the hard ticks, they do not seek a different host in each life stage. Rather than ...
William H. Marquardt, 2004
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Advances in Immunization Research and Treatment: 2012 Edition
Soft ticks could be also targeted by this vaccine if proved that the soft tick subolesin orthologs are conserved and induce protective immune responses too. ” “However, to date no soft tick subolesin orthologs have been fully characterized nor ...
‎2012
8
Differential Diagnosis in Internal Medicine: From Symptom to ...
... Asia R. australis soft tick Queensland tick typhus Australia R. japonica soft tick Japanese tick-bite fever Japan R. akari mite, rodents rickettsial pox USA, Europe, Korea R. felis flea flea typhus Mexico, Southern USA R. helvetica soft tick febrile ...
Walter Siegenthaler, 2007
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Thrombohemostatic Disease Research
Salivary antithrombins detected in the soft tick O. savignyi, the sheep tick Ixodes ricinus, and the tropical bont tick Amblyomma variegation are involved in the inhibition of the coagulation cascade, but also inhibit thrombin-induced platelet ...
Viroj Wiwanitkit, 2006
10
Small Animal Care and Management
Soft ticks have a leathery outer covering. The Spinose Ear tick (Otobius megnini) is the only medically important soft tick. The young stages (larvae and nymphs) live in the outer ear canal of dogs, cats, cattle, and horses. Adult soft ticks do not ...
Dean Marvin Warren, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOFT TICK»

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Beware of ticks when communing with nature
Oregon is home to more than a dozen species of hard ticks and a few species of soft ticks. "Hard ticks" are the tiny, familiar watermelon-seed-shaped arthropods ... «Coos Bay World, Jun 15»
2
Powassan -- Tick-Borne Terror Virus Or Too Much Media Hype?
The above are all hard ticks. Soft ticks transmit tickborne relapsing fever and also require a notably short time to feed on people and transmit infection. «Forbes, Apr 15»
3
How Do TicksTick?
A female “Ixodes scapularis” also called deer tick or blacklegged tick, as seen ... Others like Hyalomma run after hosts, and some, like many soft tick species, ... «Smithsonian Science News, Feb 15»
4
Bitterroot home to tick that carries bacteria for relapsing fever
Scientists have discovered the Bitterroot Valley is home to a tick that carries the ... The soft tick is different from the larger hard-shelled tick that causes Rocky ... «NBC Montana, Jan 15»
5
Talking ticks: Researcher to discuss local discovery at Friday …
The Rocky Mountain Laboratories scientist believes that the tiny tick species, ... Soft ticks, like those found in the Corvallis woodpile, don't have the same hard ... «Ravalli Republic, Oct 14»
6
6 Diseases Ticks Are Spreading Besides Lyme
Tickborne Relapsing Fever (TBRF) – TBRF is transmitted to people though the bite of infected soft ticks. TBRF has been reported in 15 states from Ohio to ... «Care2.com, Oct 14»
7
Rare tick-borne disease closes Flagstaff summer camp
Soft ticks differ in two important ways from the more familiar "hard ticks," which include the dog tick and the deer tick. The bite of soft ticks is brief, usually lasting ... «KPHO Phoenix, Aug 14»
8
Tickborne diseases: It's not just Lyme disease
Only Ixodidae (hard ticks) and Argasidae (soft ticks), are known to transmit diseases or illness to humans. There are more than a dozen tickborne diseases in the ... «The Global Dispatch, Jun 14»
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Creepy Crawlies, Part 2: Tremendous Ticks
Be familiar with the types of ticks found in your geographical area, what they look like, ... Two main tick families reside in North America: hard ticks and soft ticks. «TheHorse.com, May 14»
10
Tick known to carry West Nile found at Charleston port
"Soft ticks, especially Argas spp., (are) only rarely are imported in commerce, and we even more rarely see them for identification," said the NVSL researcher. «ABC NEWS 4, May 13»

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