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Tick

Meaning in veterinary medicine, with examples

/tɪk/nounCore term

In veterinary medicine, tick means: A 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.

In Turkish: kene

How it is used

Vets talk about tick-borne diseases, tick prevention and tick removal; a tick hook twists the tick out without leaving the mouthparts behind. In cattle, ticks spread tropical theileriosis, an important disease in parts of Turkey.

Example sentences

  1. I found a tick behind his ear and removed it with a tick hook.

  2. Dogs that travel abroad may need extra tick protection.

Common collocations

  • tick-borne disease
  • tick prevention
  • tick removal
  • tick bite
  • tick season
  • 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.
  • fleaA small, wingless, jumping insect that lives on the skin of cats, dogs and other animals and feeds on their blood.
  • zoonosisA disease that can pass between animals and people, such as rabies, brucellosis, ringworm or leptospirosis. The plural is zoonoses.
  • dewormingGiving an animal medicine to kill or remove internal worms such as roundworms, tapeworms and hookworms.

More terms: Vaccination and Preventive Care

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