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rat mite dermatitis(medicine)
mite typhus(medicine)

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mite noun1.
[Old English mite = Middle Low German, Middle Dutch mite (Dutch mijt), Old High German mia gnat, from Germanic.]
Orig., any minute insect or arachnid, esp. a small parasite infesting hawks. Now, any small free-living often parasitic arachnid of the order Acari, which also includes ticks.
cheese mite, harvest mite, itch-mite, mange mite, etc.
Comb.: mite-borne typhus, mite typhus = scrub typhus s.v. SCRUB noun1.
miticide noun a substance used to kill mites M20.
mity adjective full of or containing many mites L17.