Words to Know…

• Compound Eyes - made up of repeating units (a lens, crystalline cone, visual cells, and pigment cells) each of which functions as a separate visual receptor.
• Proboscis - an elongated sucking mouthpart that is typically tubular and flexible.
• Anticoagulant - having the effect of retarding or inhibiting the coagulation (clotting) of the blood.
• Anesthetic - a substance that induces insensitivity to pain.
• Epidemiology - the branch of medicine that deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases and other factors relating to health.
• Taxonomy - the branch of science concerned with classification, especially of organisms; systematics.
• Genera - a principal taxonomic category that ranks above species and below family.