#scabies

• Mite — An extremely small, often microscopic invertebrate organism belonging to the order Acari within the class Arachnida. It is characterized by a compact body in which the head, thorax, and abdomen are fused and not clearly differentiated. The taxon encompasses a wide variety of saprophytic species (such as dust mites) or hematophagous parasites (such as ticks and the scabies mite), many of which act as dangerous vectors transmitting severe infectious diseases to humans and animals.
• Acariasis — A generic term designating any contagious, parasitic skin, respiratory, or systemic disease caused by infestation with various species of mites in humans and animals. In human medicine, the most prominent manifestation is sarcoptic acariasis (scabies), whereas in apiculture and animal husbandry, the term describes severe conditions such as acarine disease of honeybees (caused by Acarapis woodi in the tracheae) or various forms of demodectic and psoroptic mange.
• Antiscabietic — Combating, treating, or curing scabies (the itch); a medication, ointment, or chemical substance used to destroy the Sarcoptes scabiei parasite. The term, although considered somewhat obsolete in modern medical vocabulary (where it is often replaced by antiscabios), is historically used in toxicology and traditional pharmacology to describe sulfur or tar-based remedies applied against parasitic dermatoses.