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Bite :: Bite (v. t.) To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food..

Punctured :: Punctured (a.) Having the surface covered with minute indentations or dots.

Acupuncture :: Acupuncture (n.) Pricking with a needle; a needle prick.

Bipunctate :: Bipunctate (a.) Having two punctures, or spots..

Electro-puncture :: Electro-puncture (n.) An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus..

Puncture :: Puncture (n.) A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin..

Bedegar :: Bedegar (n.) A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties..

Puncture :: Puncture (v. t.) To pierce with a small, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin..

Prick :: Prick (n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper..

Mosquito :: Mosquito (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic..

Puncturation :: Puncturation (n.) The act or process of puncturing. See Acupuncture.

Punctured :: Punctured (imp. & p. p.) of Punctur.

Gall :: Gall (n.) An excrescence of any form produced on any part of a plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut..

Prick :: Prick (v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.

Electro-puncturing :: Electro-puncturing (n.) See Electropuncture.

Smart :: Smart (v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles..

Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored..

Galvanopuncture :: Galvanopuncture (n.) Same as Electro-puncture.

Aquapuncture :: Aquapuncture (n.) The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.

Punction :: Punction (n.) A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture..

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