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familial Mediterranean fever
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(microbiology, epidemiology) Any of the hematozoa of the genus Babesia that invades the erythrocytes of living mammals, notably including cattle and humans, causing any of several babesioses.
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Endemic syphilis, a chronic disease of skin and tissue caused by infection by a subspecies of the spirochete Treponema pallidum.
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(medicine, neurology) A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues.
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(medicine, neurology) Initialism of bovine spongiform encephalopathy. [(medicine, neurology) A fatal, neurodegenerative disease of cattle, which is transmissible to humans through misshaped prion proteins, caused by eating infected tissues.]
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Alternative form of cat-scratch fever [(medicine) cat scratch disease]
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Bovine malignant catarrhal fever.
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(medicine, neurology) Initialism of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. [(medicine, neurology) A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions).]
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(medicine, neurology) A rare, progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system, characterized by dementia and loss of muscle control. It is a prion disease, apparently transmissible from animals to humans by eating infected tissue, as well as from tissue interchanges among humans (e.g. corneal transplants, blood transfusions).
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(medicine, uncountable) Initialism of chronic wasting disease. [(veterinary, pathology) A transmissible spongiform encephalopathy found in deer, typified by chronic weight loss leading to death.]
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(veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
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A rare mosquito-borne disease caused by a togavirus, affecting horses and humans in the Americas.
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(veterinary medicine) An uncommon but usually fatal cat disease caused by an aberrant immune response to infection with feline coronavirus (FCoV).
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infectious mononucleosis
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(uncountable, veterinary medicine) Acronym of feline infectious peritonitis. [(veterinary medicine) An uncommon but usually fatal cat disease caused by an aberrant immune response to infection with feline coronavirus (FCoV).]
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A disease affecting the feet of sheep.
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(pathology) An acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains, caused by reactivation of the Human herpes virus 3, in genus Varicellovirus, that also causes chicken pox as primo-infection.
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(pathology) A viral disease prevalent in south-east Asia, caused by Japanese encephalitis virus transmitted by mosquito.
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A chronic, contagious and often fatal disease of cattle, sheep and goats, caused by the intestinal bacterium Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes of the gastrointestinal tract
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(medicine) An illness of childhood that causes fever, lymphadenopathy, elevated platelet count, and a variety of other symptoms.
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A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.
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An acute, infectious, febrile disease of both humans and animals, caused by spirochetes of the genus Leptospira.
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An epizootic disease of horses, characterized by drowsiness, imperfect vision, partial paralysis of the throat, twitching of the muscles of the shoulder, unsteady gait, and softening of the white substance of the frontal lobes; forage poisoning.
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(medicine) An infectious disease of humans and animals caused by the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria ivanovii, often through contaminated food.
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An enzootic and often fatal viral disease of sheep and other domestic animals, spread by ticks. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.
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Alternative form of louping ill. [An enzootic and often fatal viral disease of sheep and other domestic animals, spread by ticks. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord.]
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(medicine) Infection by one of three or more subspecies of the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, which is transmitted by four species of tick in genus Ixodes. Symptoms include a rash followed by fever, joint pain, and headaches.
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(colloquial, veterinary, pathology) Synonym of bovine spongiform encephalopathy
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erethism (neurological disorder from mercury poisoning)
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Ellipsis of bovine malignant catarrhal fever.. [A fatal lymphoproliferative disease that affects bovines.]
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(medicine) A viral, often fatal infection characterised by a high fever, encephalitis, diarrhea, vomiting, and severe bleeding from bodily orifices.
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Synonym of Marburg disease
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Alternative form of panleukopenia [A distemper of cats caused by a strain of Parvovirus.]
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Alternative form of panleukopenia [A distemper of cats caused by a strain of Parvovirus.]
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(medicine, veterinary medicine) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Chlamydophila psittaci and contracted from many species of bird.
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Clostridial necrotizing enteritis, a kind of food poisoning caused by Clostridium perfringens.
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(molecular biology) A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.
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(dated) The form of croup caused by a virus and not by the diphtheria bacterium.
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epizootic lymphangitis, a disease of horses
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(medicine) A rare extrapyramidal side effect of antipsychotic drugs, causing perioral tremors.
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(pathology, uncountable) Abbreviation of rat-bite fever. [Spirillosis, or sodoku, transmitted by the gram-negative coiled rod Spirillum minus, found in Asia.]
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(pathology) A mild disease caused by the Rubella virus infecting the respiratory tract, and characterised by a rash of pink dots, fever and swollen lymph nodes.
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A degenerative prion disease of sheep and goats that attacks the central nervous system.
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(pathology) A contagious, usually fatal, disease of pigs, causing fever, skin lesions and convulsions, caused by Pestivirus C (CSFV).
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East Coast fever, a disease of cattle, sheep, and goats caused by the parasite Theileria parva, transmitted by Rhipicephalus appendiculatus
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(pathology) An acute infection by Staphylococcus bacteria, characterised by sudden high fever, muscle aches, joint pain, vomiting, diarrhea, dizziness, and fainting, abbreviated TSS.
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(pathology) That resembles a varicella (chicken pox) rash
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(medicine) A disease caused by the West Nile virus that is transmitted from birds to mosquitoes and then to people. Symptoms include drowsiness, headache and nausea, pain in the abdomen, a rash, and swollen glands, and may prove fatal.
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A fatal nervous disease affecting cattle that have browsed on the leaves or fruit of cycads, especially those of the genus Zamia, and leading to irreversible paralysis of the hind legs because of the degeneration of the spinal cord.
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(veterinary, pathology, slang) Synonym of chronic wasting disease (“CWD”)
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