animal disease
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1. a disease that typically does not affect human beings (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | disease, |
| definition | : | an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | warble, |
| definition | : | a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | anaplasmosis, |
| definition | : | a disease of cattle that is transmitted by cattle ticks; similar to Texas fever (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | aspergillosis, brooder pneumonia, |
| definition | : | severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | bighead, |
| definition | : | any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | bull nose, |
| definition | : | a disease of pigs resulting in swelling of the snout (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | camelpox, |
| definition | : | a viral disease of camels closely related to smallpox (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | catarrhal fever, |
| definition | : | any of several disease of livestock marked by fever and edema of the respiratory tract (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | chronic wasting disease, |
| definition | : | a wildlife disease (akin to bovine spongiform encephalitis) that affects deer and elk (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | costiasis, |
| definition | : | a fatal disease of freshwater fish caused by a flagellated protozoan invading the skin (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | cowpox, vaccinia, |
| definition | : | a viral disease of cattle causing a mild skin disease affecting the udder; formerly used to inoculate humans against smallpox (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | creeps, |
| definition | : | a disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | fowl cholera, |
| definition | : | an acute diarrheal disease (especially of chickens) caused by the microorganism that causes hemorrhagic septicemia (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | fowl pest, |
| definition | : | either of two acute viral diseases of domestic fowl; characterized by refusal to eat and high temperature and discoloration of the comb (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | hog cholera, |
| definition | : | highly infectious virus disease of swine (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | distemper, |
| definition | : | any of various infectious viral diseases of animals (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | enterotoxemia, |
| definition | : | a disease of cattle and sheep that is attributed to toxins absorbed from the intestines (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | foot rot, |
| definition | : | contagious degenerative infection of the feet of hoofed animals (especially cattle and sheep) (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | broken wind, heaves, |
| definition | : | a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | red water, |
| definition | : | a disease of cattle; characterized by hematuria (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | rhinotracheitis, |
| definition | : | a respiratory infection of the nose and throat in cattle (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | cattle plague, rinderpest, |
| definition | : | an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | scours, |
| definition | : | diarrhea in livestock (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | scrapie, |
| definition | : | a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | shipping fever, shipping pneumonia, |
| definition | : | 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) (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | spavin, |
| definition | : | a swelling of the hock joint of a horse; resulting in lameness (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | loco disease, locoism, |
| definition | : | a disease of livestock caused by locoweed poisoning; characterized by weakness and lack of coordination and trembling and partial paralysis (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | looping ill, |
| definition | : | an acute viral disease of the nervous system in sheep; can be transmitted by Ixodes ricinus (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | mange, |
| definition | : | a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people) (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | moon blindness, mooneye, |
| definition | : | recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | murrain, |
| definition | : | any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | myxomatosis, |
| definition | : | a viral disease (usually fatal) of rabbits (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | newcastle disease, |
| definition | : | disease of domestic fowl and other birds (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | pip, |
| definition | : | a disease of poultry (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | gall, saddle sore, |
| definition | : | an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | sand crack, |
| definition | : | a fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof often causing lameness (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | blind staggers, staggers, |
| definition | : | a disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | sweating sickness, |
| definition | : | a disease of cattle (especially calves) (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | texas fever, |
| definition | : | an infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the cattle tick (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | milk sickness, trembles, |
| definition | : | disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot (noun.state) |
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