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What does permethrin mean?

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Noun
  1. A synthetic insecticide, C21H20Cl2O3, used to treat head lice, nits, scabies, and in flea collars.
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Insecticides used for seed treatments in crops include diazinon, lindane, imidacloprid, permethrin, chlorpyrifos, and tefluthrin.
If you use permethrin as a repellant, use it only on clothing and never on skin.
Recommended chemical treatments include such common insecticides as permethrin, malathion, diazinon and sevin.
Allethrin, the first synthetic pyrethroid, was developed 50 years ago, and permethrin was used for treating body lice over 20 years ago.
Common treatments for head lice include permethrin and lindane.
We subjected these vectors to larval bioassay using two popular pyrethroids viz deltamethrin and permethrin.

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