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abattoir
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abattoir
a building for the slaughter of animals for human food. It may vary in size and sophistication depending on location and local government ordinance but it should contain the following facilities or have them close by: a slaughter area, an area for emergency slaughter, refrigeration area, condemned meat area and space for holding suspect meat, offal, gut and tripe area, hide and skin area, cutting room, despatch area, amenities for personnel, a veterinary officer's room, preferably including a laboratory, and accommodation for animals awaiting slaughter, called lairage. Called also slaughterhouse, meat packing plant.
abattoir fever
see q fever.
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In the depraved abattoirs of torture-film chic, real live people kill real live people.
Tortured Souls; 'Tis the season for carnal carnage--all year 'round by Poulos, James G. / The Weekly Standard
To identify tickborne viruses circulating in Kenya and the surrounding region, we conducted surveillance at abattoirs in Nairobi, Kenya.
Tickborne arbovirus surveillance in market livestock, Nairobi, Kenya by Miller, Barry / Emerging Infectious Diseases
In that instant a Strand paved in horseshit, or the abattoirs of Chicago, become the subject of the richly contrived regret for urban fremissement that so animated the Situationist International; its shade can be felt everywhere in the exhibition.
Sense of the city by Hobhouse, Niall / The Architectural Review
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