Definition of animal disease Animal disease
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| animal disease - a disease that typically does not affect human beings | ||
| disease an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning | ||
| warble a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly | ||
| anaplasmosis a disease of cattle that is transmitted by cattle ticks; similar to Texas fever | ||
| brooder pneumonia, aspergillosis disease especially in agricultural workers caused by inhalation of Aspergillus spores causing lumps in skin and ears and respiratory organs | ||
| bighead any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck | ||
| bovine spongiform encephalitis, bse, mad cow disease a fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation | ||
| bull nose a disease of pigs resulting in swelling of the snout | ||
| camelpox 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 dogs | ||
| catarrhal fever any of several disease of livestock marked by fever and edema of the respiratory tract | ||
| chronic wasting disease a wildlife disease (akin to bovine spongiform encephalitis) that affects deer and elk | ||
| costiasis a fatal disease of freshwater fish caused by a flagellated protozoan invading the skin | ||
| cowpox, vaccinia a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox | ||
| creeps a feeling of fear and revulsion; "he gives me the creeps" | ||
| hemorrhagic septicemia, pasteurellosis an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection | ||
| fistulous withers, fistula a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse | ||
| fowl cholera an acute diarrheal disease (especially of chickens) caused by the microorganism that causes hemorrhagic septicemia | ||
| fowl pest either of two acute viral diseases of domestic fowl; characterized by refusal to eat and high temperature and discoloration of the comb | ||
| hog cholera highly infectious virus disease of swine | ||
| distemper a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery | ||
| enterotoxemia a disease of cattle and sheep that is attributed to toxins absorbed from the intestines | ||
| foot-and-mouth disease, hoof-and-mouth disease acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs | ||
| foot 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-products | ||
| broken wind, heaves a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks | ||
| red water a disease of cattle; characterized by hematuria | ||
| rhinotracheitis a respiratory infection of the nose and throat in cattle | ||
| cattle plague, rinderpest an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes | ||
| scours diarrhea in livestock | ||
| scrapie a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system | ||
| shipping 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 lameness | ||
| loco disease, locoism a disease of livestock caused by locoweed poisoning; characterized by weakness and lack of coordination and trembling and partial paralysis | ||
| looping ill an acute viral disease of the nervous system in sheep; can be transmitted by Ixodes ricinus | ||
| mange 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 blindness | ||
| murrain any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague | ||
| myxomatosis a viral disease (usually fatal) of rabbits | ||
| newcastle disease disease of domestic fowl and other birds | ||
| pip a small hard seed found in some fruits | ||
| parrot disease, psittacosis an atypical pneumonia caused by a rickettsia microorganism and transmitted to humans from infected birds | ||
| bacillary white diarrhea, bacillary white diarrhoea, pullorum disease a serious bacterial disease of young chickens | ||
| saddle sore, gall sore on a horseback rider chafed by a saddle | ||
| sand crack a fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof often causing lameness | ||
| blind staggers, staggers a disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling | ||
| sweating sickness epidemic in the 15th and 16th centuries and characterized by profuse sweating and high mortality | ||
| texas fever an infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the cattle tick | ||
| trembles, milk sickness disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot | ||
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animal disease
A disease that is mainly found in certain animals (and not in plants or humans).
