animal disease

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animal disease - a disease that typically does not affect human beingswarble - a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble flydisease - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioninganaplasmosis - a disease of cattle that is transmitted by cattle ticks; similar to Texas feveraspergillosis, brooder pneumonia - severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeysbighead - any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neckbovine spongiform encephalitis, BSE, mad cow disease - a fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitationbull nose - a disease of pigs resulting in swelling of the snoutcamelpox - a viral disease of camels closely related to smallpox; "with a little genetic engineering camelpox could be used as a bioweapon"canine chorea, chorea - chorea in dogscatarrhal fever - any of several disease of livestock marked by fever and edema of the respiratory tractchronic wasting disease - a wildlife disease (akin to bovine spongiform encephalitis) that affects deer and elkcostiasis - a fatal disease of freshwater fish caused by a flagellated protozoan invading the skincowpox, vaccinia - a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpoxcreeps - a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gaithemorrhagic septicemia, pasteurellosis - an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infectionfistula, fistulous withers - a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horsefowl cholera - an acute diarrheal disease (especially of chickens) caused by the microorganism that causes hemorrhagic septicemiafowl pest - either of two acute viral diseases of domestic fowl; characterized by refusal to eat and high temperature and discoloration of the combhog cholera - highly infectious virus disease of swinedistemper - any of various infectious viral diseases of animalsenterotoxemia - a disease of cattle and sheep that is attributed to toxins absorbed from the intestinesfoot-and-mouth disease, hoof-and-mouth disease - acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofsfoot rot - contagious degenerative infection of the feet of hoofed animals (especially cattle and sheep)black disease, distomatosis, liver rot, sheep rot - a disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-productsbroken wind, heaves - a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanksred water - a disease of cattle; characterized by hematuriarhinotracheitis - a respiratory infection of the nose and throat in cattlecattle plague, rinderpest - an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranesscours - diarrhea in livestockscrapie - a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous systemshipping fever, shipping pneumonia - a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market)spavin - a swelling of the hock joint of a horse; resulting in lamenessloco disease, locoism - a disease of livestock caused by locoweed poisoning; characterized by weakness and lack of coordination and trembling and partial paralysislooping ill - an acute viral disease of the nervous system in sheep; can be transmitted by Ixodes ricinusmange - a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people)mooneye, moon blindness - recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindnessmurrain - any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plaguemyxomatosis - a viral disease (usually fatal) of rabbitsNewcastle disease - disease of domestic fowl and other birdspip - a disease of poultryparrot disease, psittacosis - infectious disease of birdsbacillary white diarrhea, bacillary white diarrhoea, pullorum disease - a serious bacterial disease of young chickensgall, saddle sore - an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle

animal disease

animal disease

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noun a disease that typically does not affect human beings

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