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disinfestation
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disinfestation /dis·in·fes·ta·tion/ (-in-fes-ta´shun) destruction of insects, rodents, or other animal forms present on the person or their clothes or in their surroundings, and which may transmit disease.
disinfestation
[dis′infestā′shən]
Etymology: L, dis, apart, infestare, to infest
elimination of a threat of infestation by vermin, rodents, lice, or other noxious organisms.

disinfestation [dis″in-fes-ta´shun]
destruction of insects, rodents, or other animal forms present on the person or his clothes or in his surroundings, and which may transmit disease.

disinfestation
destruction of insects, rodents or other animal forms present on the animal or its harness or in its surroundings, and which may transmit disease.


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