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Tunga penetrans. (Linnaeus, 1758) Tunga penetrans is a species of flea also known as the jigger, jigger flea, chigoe, chigo, chigoe flea, chigo flea, nigua, sand flea, or burrowing flea. It is a parasitic insect found in most tropical and sub-tropical climates. In its parasitic phase it has significant impact on its hosts, which include humans ...
Jig borer. The jig borer is a type of machine tool invented at the end of World War I to enable the quick and precise location of hole centers. It was invented independently in Switzerland and the United States. [1] It resembles a specialized kind of milling machine that provides tool and die makers with a higher degree of positioning precision ...
Tungiasis. Tungiasis is an inflammatory skin disease caused by infection with the female ectoparasitic Tunga penetrans, a flea also known as the chigoe, chigo, chigoe flea, chigo flea, jigger, nigua, sand flea, or burrowing flea (and not to be confused with the chigger, a different arthropod). The flea and the disease that it causes are found ...
The chigger, also known as redbugs, jiggers, and harvest mites are the parasitic larvae form of a mite in the Trombiculidae family. They are nearly invisible at around 0.15 to 0.3 millimeters and ...
A jig grinder is a machine tool used for grinding complex shapes and holes where the highest degrees of accuracy and finish are required. The jig grinder is very similar to a jig borer, in that the table positioning and spindles are very accurate (far more so than a manual milling machine or lathe). It is used almost exclusively by tool and die ...
Jigger (bartending), used to measure out a jigger (1.5 US fluid ounces) of liquor. Pallet jack, used to lift and move pallets. Hydraulic jigger, a hydraulically powered mechanical winch. Ice jigger, used for setting fish nets under ice between two distant holes. Jigger, a machine for the shaping of clay body into flatware; see Glossary of ...
Pixie and Dixie call upon Judo Jack to teach them how defend themselves against Jinks in the arts of judo. Jinks builds a robot cat to take care of Pixie and Dixie; their efforts against it don't work until they make it think Jinks is a mouse. Jinks builds a machine he thinks will liquidate Pixie and Dixie.
October 24, 2024 at 10:57 PM. A surgeon working in Scotland has developed a way to remove brain tumours the size of apples through patients’ eyebrows in what is believed to be a world-first for ...