Preferred Name

louse
Synonyms
Definitions

Members of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insect. Lice are obligate parasites, living externally on warm-blooded hosts which include every species of bird and mammal, except for monotremes, pangolins, and bats. Lice are vectors of diseases such as typhus.

ID

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/NCBITAXON/85819

alternate name

lice

definition

Members of the clade Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless parasitic insect. Lice are obligate parasites, living externally on warm-blooded hosts which include every species of bird and mammal, except for monotremes, pangolins, and bats. Lice are vectors of diseases such as typhus.

has database cross reference

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6481228

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lice

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louse

has synonym

Phthiraptera

label

louse

Library of Congress Classification

QL540

QL570

Library of Congress Subject Headings

http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85076759

MeSH Descriptor ID

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D008003

NCBI Taxonomy ID

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/NCBITAXON/85819

prefLabel

louse

SNOMED CT Identifier

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/414966007

subClassOf

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/NCBITAXON/1930602

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