étêter

Nous dormions quatre heures le matin et travaillions le reste de la journée, en triant, identifiant et étêtant les moustiques afin de les analyser au labo et vérifier s'ils étaient infectés de malaria dans le sang de leurs pièces buccales.
We slept for four hours every morning and worked the rest of the day, sorting mosquitoes, identifying them and chopping off their heads so they could be analyzed in the lab to check if they were carrying malaria parasites in their blood mouthparts.
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