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lice

[ lahys ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

lice

/ laɪs /

The good news about head lice is that they carry no human diseases—they just create a major annoyance.

The one that drives most families over the edge is head lice.

But first a word on human lice, a noble symbiote who has been working the primate circuit for millions of years.

Body lice though are important from a public health perspective.

She was in dirty clothes and suffered from numerous skin irritations, including head lice when she was rescued from the camp.

"Hon'lable p'lice patrol come 'long plenty soon," murmured Sin Sin Wa.

The presence of lice and of the Acarus Scabiei can bring about acute and severe skin eruptions.

The Tibetans dry the flowers of this plant and use them as a preventive against lice.

Said he, "If it were lice got you into that state, you'd be crawling with them."

For they multiply like lice, and are as poisonous as the snakes that crawl in the steppe of Muhan.

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