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Dermatobia

noun Der·ma·to·bia \ˌdər-mə-ˈtō-bē-ə\

Medical Definition of DERMATOBIA

:  a genus of botflies including one (D. hominis) whose larvae live under the skin of domestic mammals and sometimes of humans in tropical America

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