kedani

Noun

kedani (countable and uncountable, plural kedani)

1. A mite of species (Trombicula akamushi), found in Japan.
   • The recent studies on the kedani disease of Japan are extremely interesting as examples of proteus infection through the wounds inflicted by an insect, a specific mite (kedani) closely allied to the harvest-mite (Leptus autumnalis).1901, Ludvig Hektoen, David Riesman, An American Text-book of Pathology, page 243
   • Tanaka (175) was the first to distinguish three kinds of akamushi in 1919, naming them "kedani" and "nezumidani" "a" and "b" on the basis of certain morphological differences. Of their habits he says : "The first kind, or kedani, bites both man and field voles;1926, Rinya Kawamura, Nathan Chandler Foot, Shiro Tashiro, Studies on tsutsugamushi disease (Japanese blood fever), page 200
2. A disease for which this mite is the vector; tsutsugamushi.
   • The recent studies on the kedani disease of Japan are extremely interesting as examples of proteus infection through the wounds inflicted by an insect, a specific mite (kedani) closely allied to the harvest-mite (Leptus autumnalis).1901, Ludvig Hektoen, David Riesman, An American Text-book of Pathology, page 243
   • These facts, together with the occurrence of a rash, show that the disease possesses many of the features which characterize kedani or tsutsugamushi fever of Japan.1915, The Philippine Journal of Science - Volume 10, Part 2, page 345