Medical Dictionary
triatoma
noun tri·at·o·ma \trī-ˈat-ə-mə\
Medical Definition of TRIATOMA
1
capitalized : a genus of large blood-sucking bugs that are usually placed in the family Reduviidae but sometimes assigned to a separate family and that feed on mammals and sometimes transmit Chagas' disease to their hosts—see conenose
2
: any bug of the genus Triatoma
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