soft tick
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And then a soft tick, a shift.

They hung from the velvet ribbon, swinging free and hitting the table edge with a soft tick.

It is one of the more common soft ticks to bite humans.

These genera are known as soft ticks because their outer body surface lacks hard plates.

Feeding by soft ticks is generally completed within minutes rather than days as with hard ticks.

They made soft musical ticks as she dropped them onto a tray.

The only sound was Escott's heartbeat and the soft tick of his watch.

The life stages of soft ticks are not readily distinguishable.

One also could think of the Rabies virus in similar terms, or the aforementioned soft ticks.

"If a bomb is ticking it is a soft tick."