fleabite

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fleabite

n. a small chip off something. This cup has a little fleabite, but it doesn’t really harm its value.

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These parasites put cats at risk for dangerous illnesses such as flea allergy dermatitis, fleabite anemia, heartworm and Lyme disease, among others, according to officials of the Secaucus, N.

Protecting cats from pests

Compared to the numbers of singles sold when `the Charts were the Charts', 20,000 is a fleabite.

Charts don't have the same clout as before

Bioterrorism using plague in aerosol form probably would result in pneumonic plague because victims would inhale the bacteria rather than be infected by a fleabite.

Biological, chemical and radiological terrorism

Tail itchiness, due to fleas or an allergy called fleabite hypersensitivity.

Pet Problems

Although in the course of its nineteen years the weekly's circulation rose from a few thousand to 70,000 at his death, someone still called it "a fleabite of a journal.

I.F. Stone: he saw what others missed, even though it was often in plain sight. (Articles)

Overall, however, the perils of writing were judged but a fleabite compared with those of reading.

Reading is bad for your health

In general, the worst a fleabite can do is become infected.

Fleas ... Protect Your Pet And Your Child

It cost PS347 million, a fleabite in government terms, and was one of the few flexible lifelines.

I said a year ago the benefits testing system isn't working

amp; there every swollen little fleabite & every helium-filled

And Then

A scratch or fleabite, for example, is needed to start the infection.

Chapter 5 fungal zoonoses

Other causes can be tail itchiness, due to fleas or an allergy called fleabite hypersensitivity, and anal gland problems, which might need antibiotics or surgery.

WEEKEND: YOUR PETS: Budgie is biting the hand that feeds it

The 1997 and 1998 murine typhus patients were analyzed for race, ethnicity, history of fleabite, exposure to cats and opossums, and presence of symptoms.

Geographic association of Rickettsia felis-infected opossums with human murine typhus, Texas. (Research)

So far as celebrity weddings go, that's a fleabite.

Personal finance: Easing wedding burden

He stung his opponent by describing the SNP's [pound]35-million-a-year to improve the Scottish health service as "a fleabite, an insult" compared with Labour's [pound]1.

DOGMAFIGHT; BROADSIDES: END OF THE PHONEY POLITICAL WAR

Diana shrugged off the criticism as easily as she flicked away mosquitos, but the public will long remember Lord Howe's fleabite.