an infectious disease of sheep and sometimes goats and cattle, characterized by scabby pustular lesions on the muzzle and lips; caused by a paramyxovirus
Technical name: contagious pustular dermatitis. Also called (Austral): scabby mouth
Examples of 'scabby mouth' in a sentence
scabby mouth
In a separate incident, a worker at the same lab needed treatment after catching scabby mouth, a virus in sheep.