Taber's Medical Dictionary
Anoplura
(an″ŏ-ploor′ă )
[Gr. anoplos, unarmed + Gr. oura, tail]
Blood-feeding ectoparasites of mammals. They can cause localised skin irritations and are vectors of several blood-borne diseases, e.g., trench fever, epidemic typhus, epidemic relapsing fever.
SEE: louse; SEE: pediculosis
Citation
Venes, Donald, editor. "Anoplura." Taber's Medical Dictionary, 25th ed., F.A. Davis Company, 2025. Nursing Central, nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767521/all/Anoplura.
Anoplura. In: Venes DD, ed. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767521/all/Anoplura. Accessed October 31, 2025.
Anoplura. (2025). In Venes, D. (Ed.), Taber's Medical Dictionary (25th ed.). F.A. Davis Company. https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767521/all/Anoplura
Anoplura [Internet]. In: Venes DD, editors. Taber's Medical Dictionary. F.A. Davis Company; 2025. [cited 2025 October 31]. Available from: https://nursing.unboundmedicine.com/nursingcentral/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767521/all/Anoplura.
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