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Definition of Disinfestation
1. Noun. The activity of getting rid of vermin.
Definition of Disinfestation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Disinfestation
1. Physical or chemical process to destroy or remove small undesirable animal forms, particularly arthropods or rodents, present upon the person, clothing, or environment of an individual or domestic animals. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disinfestation
Literary usage of Disinfestation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Applied bacteriology for nurses by Charles Bolduan, Marie Grund (1919)
"disinfestation The important part played by lice in the transmission of disease
has been demonstrated anew by the recent war, and delousing, ..."
2. Typhus Fever with Particular Reference to the Serbian Epidemic by Richard Pearson Strong (1921)
"While the barrel met hot! of disinfestation was nevertheless moderately ...
disinfestation of clothing by hot flatirons was employed very little, if at all, ..."
3. American Medicine (1921)
"Altho the city authorities required a certificate showing that disinfestation
had been accomplished, this certificate could be obtained by those who desired ..."
4. A Textbook of Bacteriology: A Practical Treatise for Students and by Hans Zinsser, Frederick Fuller Russell (1922)
"Delousing depends upon early discovery of lousiness in a community, regiment or
other unit, personal cleanliness, disinfestation of those who are ..."
5. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"... correlation of commodity quality with prior exposure to chemical and physical
disinfestation treatments; commercially viable biological control systems ..."
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