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Word: dermatobia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...like a purulent cyst, and in it he found a white maggot, almost an inch long. Two days later, he removed another maggot. The Department of Agriculture's Entomologist Richard P. Higgins identified the doctor's find as larvae of the human botfly, known to scientists as Dermatobia hominis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parasitology: The Human Botfly | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

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