Psychiatry and Psychology

Grooming

An animal's cleaning and caring for the body surface. This includes preening, the cleaning and oiling of feathers with the bill or of hair with the tongue.

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Structured Summary

Abstract

An animal's cleaning and caring for the body surface. This includes preening, the cleaning and oiling of feathers with the bill or of hair with the tongue.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Groomings
  • Preening
  • Preenings

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Aspects Covered

5 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, drug effects, ethics, physiology, radiation effects.

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Indexing Annotation

animal only; for personal grooming of humans use HYGIENE

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History Note

68; PREENING was see under GROOMING 1975-90

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Previous Indexing

  • Behavior, Animal (1966-1967)

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Tree Number

  1. F01.145.113w.111.453w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Grooming. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006120. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006120
  2. Grooming. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_grooming
  3. Grooming. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q999981