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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD MULES OPERATION

Named after J. H. W. Mules (died 1946), Australian grazier who first suggested it.
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PRONUNCIATION OF MULES OPERATION

Mules operation  [mjuːlz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MULES OPERATION

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Mules operation is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MULES OPERATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of Mules operation in the English dictionary

The definition of Mules operation in the dictionary is the surgical removal of folds of skin in the breech of a sheep to reduce blowfly strike.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MULES OPERATION


amazeballs
əˈmeɪzˌbɔːlz
Arles
ɑːlz
balls
bɔːlz
Charles
tʃɑːlz
coveralls
ˈkʌvərɔːlz
falls
fɔːlz
gules
ɡjuːlz
heels
hiːlz
meals-on-wheels
ˈmiːlzɒnˈwiːlz
mules
mjuːlz
overalls
ˈəʊvərˌɔːlz
pools
puːlz
Quarles
kwɔːlz
Rules
ruːlz
Schools
skuːlz
smalls
smɔːlz
stalls
stɔːlz
steels
stiːlz
walls
wɔːlz
wheels
wiːlz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MULES OPERATION

Mulciber
mulct
Muldoon
mule
mule deer
mule driver
mule skinner
mule track
mules
muleta
muleteer
muley
mulga
Mulhouse
muliebrity
mulish
mulishly
mulishness
Mulki

WORDS THAT END LIKE MULES OPERATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
association
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
creation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
evaluation
excitation

Synonyms and antonyms of Mules operation in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Mules operation» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MULES OPERATION

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Translator English - Chinese

骡子操作
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

operación de Mules
570 millions of speakers

English

Mules operation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खच्चरों आपरेशन
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

عملية البغال
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

операция Мулы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

operação Mules
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খনি অপারেশন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

opération mules
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mules operasi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Maultiere Betrieb
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ミュール操作
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

뮬 조작
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mules operasi
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

hoạt động la
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கழுதை அறுவை சிகிச்சை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खनिजांच्या ऑपरेशन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Katırların çalışması
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

operazione di Mules
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

operacja muły
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

операція Мули
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

operație catâri
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λειτουργία Mules
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

muile werking
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Slip drift
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Mules drift
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Mules operation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MULES OPERATION»

The term «Mules operation» is barely ever used and occupies the 195.647 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MULES OPERATION» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MULES OPERATION»

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The Australian Ark: A History of Domesticated Animals in ...
The Mules operation is a memorial to a man whose basic idea of using a simple surgical operation to control blowfly strike has saved the sheep industry millions of dollars annually. Even more importantly the operation has saved many ...
Ian Parsonson, 1998
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The Welfare of Sheep
This avoidance was apparent for at least 37 days following the operation. While directly comparing levels of hormones across studies is difficult, the levels of cortisol following the mules operation in the study of Fell & Shutt (1989) were similar ...
‎2008
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Model Code of Practice for the Welfare of Animals: The Sheep
9.5 Mules operation The removal of wool-bearing skin from part of the breech area of the sheep (mulesing) provides a high degree of lifetime protection against flystrike in the breech area. 9.6 Identification When it is necessary to mark sheep  ...
Pisc, 2006
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Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary
... mules-lnc V'myul-zinV n : the use of Mules operation to reduce the occurrence of blowfly strike Mules operation \'myulz-\ n : removal of excess loose skin from either side of the crutch of a sheep to reduce the incidence of blowfly strike Mules , ...
‎1995
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Shaping Science and Industry: A History of Australia's ...
... of reducing bacterial action in the dense-woolled Merino, particularly during moist seasons. By the end of the 1930s most scientists were willing to concede that a simple piece of technology, the Mules operation, was the best method of ...
C. B. Schedvin, 1987
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Artificial Parts, Practical Lives: Modern Histories of ...
The most popular technique of this sort was Mules's operation, in which a glass sphere was inserted into Tenon's capsule, after evisceration of the globe. The sphere functioned as an artificial vitreous, the semifluid material between the retina ...
Katherine Ott, David Serlin, Stephen Mihm, 2002
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Animal Science Reviews 2012
Animal Production Science 2010;50:1069—76. . Beveridge WIB. The origin and early history of the Mules operation. Australian Veterinary Journal 1984;61:161— 3. . Morley FHW, Johnstone IL. Development and use ofthe mules operation.
David Hemming, 2013
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Issues in Animal Science and Research: 2011 Edition
“All progeny born until 2002 were subjected to the Modified Mules operation as lambs (n = 1799). However, due to international pressure to phase out the Mules operation, animals from 2003 onwards were not mulesed (n = 1119). During both  ...
‎2012
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Sheep Medicine
(NB: Mules 'operation' suggests some degree of professional care, but it is in fact a mutilation.) The proliferative lesions are readily traumatized and become secondarily infected. Metastases to drainage lymph nodes do occur but can be ...
Phillip R. Scott, 2006
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Under the Mulga: A Bush Memoir
In the 1940s, the Mules operation, substantially the same and equally effective, was introduced to deal with breach wrinkles in the same way. Mulesing, after JHW Mules, the pastoralist who invented the operation, has since become standard ...
Jim Gasteen, 2005

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MULES OPERATION»

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Law of the land
... example mulesing was to occur without the use of pain relief, is the person who did the mules operation exempt and protected by that section ... «ABC Online, Aug 11»

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