Medical Dictionary

eye gnat

noun

Medical Definition of EYE GNAT

:  any of several small dipteran flies of the genus Hippelates (especially H. pusio) including some that are held to be vectors of pinkeye and yaws—called also eye fly; compare chloropidae, siphunculina

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