Crossword-Solution: MUSCID
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Muscid | n. | Any fly of the genus Musca, or family Muscidae. |
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Dermatological complaint
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Maxillary tendons: two slender rods in basal third of the muscid proboscis the remnant of the palpifer, to which muscles for flexing the proboscis are attached: see lora.
Those that we saw occurred on the Humble and other wild bees, and on various flies (Syrphus and Muscidæ), and there is no reason why they should not infest the Honey bee, which frequents similar flowers, as they are actually known to do in Europe.
Another fly of this Muscid group, the Idia Bigoti, according to Coquerel and Mondiere, produces in the natives of Senegal, hard, red, fluctuating tumors, in which the larva resides.
These disks are only engaged, in Platygaster, in building up the rudimentary appendages, while in the flies (Muscidæ and Corethra) they build up the whole body, according to the remarkable discovery of Weismann.
The nervous system is remarkably concentrated in some beetles, the abdominal ganglia showing a tendency to become shifted forward and crowded together, and in certain chafers all the thoracic and abdominal ganglia are fused into a single nerve-centre situated in the thorax,--a degree of specialization only matched in the insectan class among the Hemiptera and some muscid flies.