Medical Term:
Carpoglyphus
Pronunciation: kar′pō-glif′us
Definition
A genus of mites including Carpoglyptus passularum, the fruit mite, which causes a dermatitis in handlers of dried fruit.
[G. karpos, fruit, + glyphō, , to carve]
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