Medical Dictionary
dog tick
noun
Medical Definition of DOG TICK
: any of several ticks infesting dogs and commonly other animals: as a : american dog tick b : an Australian tick of the genus Ixodes (I. holocyclus) that chiefly infests native marsupials and that may cause respiratory paralysis in dogs or humans by its bite
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