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Descriptor
English
:
Euthanasia, Animal
Descriptor
Spanish
:
eutanasia en animales
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Eutanásia Animal
Synonyms
English
:
Animal Euthanasia
Animal Mercy Killing
Mercy Killing, Animal
Tree Number:
E02.760.905.199.249.750
E05.335
N02.421.585.905.199.500.750
Definition
English
:
The killing of
animals
for reasons of mercy, to
control
disease
transmission or maintain the
health
of animal populations, or for experimental purposes (
ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION
).
Indexing Annotation
English
:
methods
of "sacrificing"
animals
go here if the topic of discussion; for
euthanasia
of
laboratory
animals
, coordinate with
ANIMALS
,
LABORATORY
See Related
English
:
Animal Culling
Animal Welfare
History Note
English
:
2003
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
ES
ethics
HI
history
LJ
legislation & jurisprudence
MT
methods
SN
statistics & numerical data
Record Number:
37561
Unique Identifier:
D037901
Occurrence in VHL
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