Taber's Medical Dictionary
Amblyomma
(am″blē-om′ă )
[ ambly- + Gr. omma, eye]
A genus of ticks that includes the Lone Star tick (A. americanum) and the Gulf Coast tick (A. maculatum). Some species cause tick bite paralysis; others are vectors of human ehrlichiosis, rickettsial diseases, or tularemia.
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Amblyomma." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/752644/all/Amblyomma.
Amblyomma. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/752644/all/Amblyomma. Accessed July 19, 2025.
Amblyomma. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/752644/all/Amblyomma
Amblyomma [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2025 July 19]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/752644/all/Amblyomma.
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