| 单词 | african horse sickness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAfrican horse sickness African horse sickness n. a serious, often fatal, infectious disease of horses, mules, and donkeys caused by an orbivirus, which is transmitted by midges of the genus Culicoides and certain other biting arthropods, and affects mainly the lungs and heart, with fever and often extensive oedema and effusions; = horse-sickness n. at horse n. Compounds 2a.African horse sickness is endemic in central and southern Africa, but has occurred also in northern Africa, the Middle East, and southern Europe. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > other disorders of horses trench?a1450 colt-evilc1460 affreyd?1523 cholera1566 crick1566 incording1566 leprosy1566 taint1566 eyesore1576 fistula1576 wrench1578 birth1600 garrot1600 stithy1600 stifling1601 stranglings1601 hungry evil1607 pose1607 crest-fall1609 pompardy1627 felteric1639 quick-scab1639 shingles1639 clap1684 sudden taking1688 bunches1706 flanks1706 strangles1706 chest-founderingc1720 body-founder1737 influenza1792 foundering1802 horse-sickness1822 stag-evil1823 strangullion1830 shivering1847 dourine1864 swamp fever1870 African horse sickness1874 horse-pox1884 African horse disease1888 wind-stroke1890 thump1891 leucoencephalitis1909 western equine encephalitis1933 stachybotryotoxicosis1945 rhinopneumonitis1957 1819 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Oct. 395/2 The horse sickness has disappeared, and the horses for the remount of the Zwellendam Command..have proceeded towards Graham's Town.] 1874 S. W. Baker Ismailïa I. xi. 362 The well-known African horse-sickness broke out. In spite of every precaution, my horses died. 1924 Times 7 Aug. 17/3 Many of these undetermined diseases are very common and familiar..; among animals, rabies, rinderpest, foot-and-mouth disease, and African horse-sickness. 1986 J. F. Gracey Meat Hygiene (ed. 8) xix. 437/2 Pulmonary oedema occurs in African horse sickness. 2007 Daily Tel. 27 Mar. 5/8 African horse sickness, which is spread by the Culicoides midge, kills 90 per cent of horses that catch it. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。