lice
the plural of louse.
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How to use lice in a sentence
We’re still seeing kids with injuries, we’re still seeing kids with head lice.
School Nurses Fear a Coronavirus Surge as Students and Staff Return From Winter Break | Katie Reilly | January 4, 2021 | TimeShe studies these animals in search of tiny lice that piggyback on them.
One tiny sea parasite survives 200 times atmospheric pressure | Shi En Kim | September 25, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThose seal lice can survive crushing pressures too, Leonardi and her colleagues now report.
One tiny sea parasite survives 200 times atmospheric pressure | Shi En Kim | September 25, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThat could explain why adult lice handled high pressures better than the teen lice.
One tiny sea parasite survives 200 times atmospheric pressure | Shi En Kim | September 25, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThey exposed different groups of lice to a range of pressures for 10 minutes.
One tiny sea parasite survives 200 times atmospheric pressure | Shi En Kim | September 25, 2020 | Science News For Students
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.
The Mysterious Case of Maria, Greece’s Fake Roma Child | Barbie Latza Nadeau | October 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST"Hon'lable p'lice patrol come 'long plenty soon," murmured Sin Sin Wa.
Dope | Sax RohmerThe presence of lice and of the Acarus Scabiei can bring about acute and severe skin eruptions.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyThe Tibetans dry the flowers of this plant and use them as a preventive against lice.
Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 | Charles Kenneth Howard-BurySaid he, "If it were lice got you into that state, you'd be crawling with them."
An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 | William OrpenFor they multiply like lice, and are as poisonous as the snakes that crawl in the steppe of Muhan.
Life of Schamyl | John Milton Mackie
British Dictionary definitions for lice
/ (laɪs) /
the plural of louse
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