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Veterinary Medicine vocabulary · Vaccination and Preventive Care

Flea

Meaning in veterinary medicine, with examples

/fliː/nounCore term

In veterinary medicine, flea means: A small, wingless, jumping insect that lives on the skin of cats, dogs and other animals and feeds on their blood.

In Turkish: pire

How it is used

Owners ask about flea treatment, flea collars and spot-ons. Vets look for flea dirt (black specks that turn red on wet paper) and explain that most of the flea population lives in the home as eggs and larvae. Fleas can also spread tapeworms.

Example sentences

  1. I found flea dirt along his back, so he definitely has fleas.

  2. Her itchy skin is probably caused by a flea allergy.

Common collocations

  • flea treatment
  • flea allergy
  • flea dirt
  • flea infestation
  • flea control
  • parasiteAn organism that lives on or inside an animal and feeds from it, such as fleas, ticks and mites on the outside or worms and protozoa on the inside.
  • tickA small, eight-legged parasite related to spiders that attaches to the skin and feeds on blood. Ticks can spread diseases such as Lyme disease and babesiosis.
  • dewormingGiving an animal medicine to kill or remove internal worms such as roundworms, tapeworms and hookworms.

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