Medical Dictionary

Tabanidae

noun pl Ta·ban·i·dae \tə-ˈban-ə-ˌdē\

Medical Definition of TABANIDAE

:  a very large family of the order Diptera comprising the horseflies and deerflies whose females suck blood and sometimes transmit disease (as loaiasis) to human beings

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