mange
noun
ˈmānj 
: any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The Oakland Athletics are dumping and shredding, shedding players like a dog with mange. 
Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2022 But skeptics believe the animal is just a bear sick with mange. Lauren Kent, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022 Jigme Gurung, a citizen scientist working with the WWF in upper Dolpa, has recently found numerous wild blue sheep that were severely ill or dead with mange-like symptoms and has seen camera-trap photos of other snow leopards with similar symptoms. Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 27 July 2022 He has been caught and treated for mange and freed to flaunt his handsomeness around Griffith Park. Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 As for dogs like Sassy, piebald with mange and gnawing at the bug bites on her shins, there was no chance — none — to leave a shelter alive. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022 Severe mange and bug bites, feet bleached white by urine. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022 By robbing them of their hair, mange deprives them of warmth. Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2022 Tests later confirmed that P-22 had been exposed to rat poison and was suffering from mange, a parasitic mite. Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022 See More
Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Aug. 2022 But skeptics believe the animal is just a bear sick with mange. Lauren Kent, Outside Online, 11 Aug. 2022 Jigme Gurung, a citizen scientist working with the WWF in upper Dolpa, has recently found numerous wild blue sheep that were severely ill or dead with mange-like symptoms and has seen camera-trap photos of other snow leopards with similar symptoms. Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 27 July 2022 He has been caught and treated for mange and freed to flaunt his handsomeness around Griffith Park. Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2022 As for dogs like Sassy, piebald with mange and gnawing at the bug bites on her shins, there was no chance — none — to leave a shelter alive. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022 Severe mange and bug bites, feet bleached white by urine. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2022 By robbing them of their hair, mange deprives them of warmth. Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2022 Tests later confirmed that P-22 had been exposed to rat poison and was suffering from mange, a parasitic mite. Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
alteration of Middle English manjewe, from Anglo-French manjue, from manger to eat
First Known Use
1540, in the meaning defined above
Phrases Containing mange
Kids Definition
mange
noun
ˈmānj
: a contagious skin disease usually of domestic animals in which there is itching and loss of hair
Medical Definition
mange
noun
ˈmānj
: any of various more or less severe, persistent, and contagious skin diseases that are marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair and that affect domestic animals or sometimes humans
especially : a skin disease caused by a minute parasitic mite of Sarcoptes, Psoroptes, Chorioptes, or related genera that burrows in or lives on the skin or by one of the genus Demodex that lives in the hair follicles or sebaceous glands see chorioptic mange, demodectic mange, sarcoptic mange, scabies
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