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strangles|ˈstræŋg(ə)lz|
Also 7 stranga's, strangies.
[Orig. pl. of strangle n.]
†1. A disease in horses and other animals, characterized by inflamed swellings in the throat: = strangullion 1. Obs.
1600Surflet Country Farm i. xxiii. 137 For the strangles or glandules which happen vnder the oxe his throat,..plucke away their glandules, and [etc.]. 1601Holland Pliny xxvi. xv. II. 268 Sideritis hath a peculiar vertue for to cure swine of their squinsies or strangles. 1624L. W. C. Perf. Disc. Horse C 3, For the Strangles. Cut him betweene the lawes, and take out the Kirnels. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2154/4 Stolen.., a dark brown Gelding 14 hands high,..hath had the Stranga's in two places under the Jaw.
2. An infectious febrile disease of equine animals, caused by the bacterium Streptococcus equi.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Strangles, the thick Humour, which young Horses void at their Nostrils. 1753J. Bartlet Gentl. Farriery x. (1754) 104 The methods above recommended in the strangles. 1831Youatt Horse viii. 123 Glanders have often been confounded with strangles, and by those who ought to have known better. Strangles are peculiar to young horses. 1891H. S. Constable Horses, Sport & War 66 Every horse..during the time its throat is choked up, and nerves paralysed by strangles is a roarer. 1908Animal Managem. (War Office) 313 Strangles is a fever of young horses, the prominent feature of which is an abscess which develops between the branches of the lower jaw.
attrib.1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. II. 515 The matter from a newly-opened farcy..is usually distinguishable from staphylococcus pus, and strangles pus. |