Ohmmeters work by passing a small current through the component and measuring the voltage produced. If you try this with the component connected into a circuit with a power supply, the most likely result is that the meter will be damaged. Most multimeters have a fuse to help protect against misuse.
Lice itself is a Plural form and the the Singular of it is Louse. Louse ( Insect ) Louse is the common name for members of the order Phthiraptera, which contains nearly 5,000 species of wingless insect. : Wikipedia.
Word Origin and History for lich. n. also litch, lych, body, corpse, southern England dialectal survival of Old English lic body, dead body, corpse, cognate with Old Frisian lik, Dutch lijk, Old High German lih, German leiche dead body, Old Norse lik, Danish lig, Gothic leik, from Proto-Germanic *likow.