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A highly contagious and destructive disease of bees caused by the spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae.
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(pathology) An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis.
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Brucellosis, a bacterial disease.
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(informal) giardiasis (an infection by Giardia parasites)
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(medicine) Visceral leishmaniasis.
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(uncountable, agriculture, veterinary medicine) A fatal cattle disease caused by the soil-borne bacterium Clostridium chauvoei; symptomatic anthrax.
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An African disease of sheep, marked by protrusion of the eye, blindness, and rupture.
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Coronaviral enteritis in turkeys.
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(by extension) Infection by maggots under the skin of cows, or by sheep maggots in the frontal sinus of sheep.
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An inflammatory disease of sheep.
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A fatal disease of sheep.
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(India, obsolete) A disease of horses caused by Pythium insidiosum, thought to be especially common in the rainy season, and characterized by pustular eruptions on the head and foreparts.
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An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae.
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The disease icterohematuria in sheep.
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(medicine) A relatively benign disease, characterized by swollen lymph nodes, caused by the bacterium Bartonella henselae normally carried by the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis
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An inflammatory nodule at the bite site of the reduviid bug which transmits Chagas disease.
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A sore characteristic of this infection.
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A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle; anthrax.
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A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis; founder.
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A disease of equids, caused by Trypanosoma equiperdum and spread through sexual intercourse.
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(South Africa) A disease of cattle caused by Trypanosoma theileri.
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A distemper in geese, affecting the head.
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A wart associated with a highly contagious sexually transmitted infection, caused by some types of human papillomavirus.
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A disease caused by coenurosis of the brain, most commonly found in sheep and canids.
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An infectious disease of horses, mules and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans.
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A viral disease that affects many insects.
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A disease that affects the abomasum of sheep, goats and cattle
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(uncountable) The condition caused by this organism.
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An infection in cattle caused by a species of Dictyocaulus or lungworm
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pulmonary adenomatosis of sheep or goats
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An acute illness, with vomiting and dehydration, caused by the toxin hypoglycin A, found in unripe ackee fruit.
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Alternative form of Katayama fever [schistosomiasis]
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(South Africa) A form of botulism in cattle.
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(medicine) Inhibiting the worsening of Hansen's disease (leprosy), inhibiting the growth of M. leprae.
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(informal) Lyme disease.
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(obsolete) Used as an intensifier.
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(UK dialect) Synonym of measles: the disease caused by M. morbillivirus, the red spots caused by the disease.
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A condition, with trembling and vomiting, caused by ingestion of milk, meat, etc. from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot, which contains the poison tremetol.
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(dermatology, pathology) A viral infection of the skin or (occasionally) mucous membranes, caused by Molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV), a DNA poxvirus.
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(phytopathology) Any of several viral diseases that cause mosaic-like patterns to appear on leaves.
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(veterinary medicine, chiefly historical) Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle such as anthrax.
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(informal) myxomatosis, a rabbit disease transmitted by mosquitoes and fleas.
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A usually fatal viral disease of rabbits, causing skin tumors.
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(obsolete, rare) Synonym of disappearing disease
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(Africa) The disease bejel.
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(medicine) A zoonotic infectious disease (of birds) caused by a bacterium called Chlamydia psittaci, it can be transmitted to humans and other animals. When carried by any species of bird belonging to the Psittacidae family (parrots), it is called psittacosis or parrot fever.
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A human skin disease endemic to Mexico, Central America, and South America, caused by infection with a spirochete, Treponema pallidum carateum, which is morphologically and serologically indistinguishable from the organism that causes syphilis.
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Any of various respiratory diseases in birds, especially infectious coryza.
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(pathology) an infection caused by certain bacteria of the genus Borrelia, transmitted by lice and ticks
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(medicine) Any severe infectious disease caused by several different bacteria of the order Rickettsiales and transmitted by parasitic arthropods.
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A form of typhus caused by the intracellular parasite Orientia tsutsugamushi carried by certain mites.
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A disease caused by a coenurus infestation in the brain of an animal, especially a sheep or canid; coenurosis.
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(South Africa) Paralysis of cattle or sheep, having various possible causes such as Crotalaria poisoning.
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(medicine) A disease spread via sexual activity, caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.
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(pathology, obsolete) All the symptoms of the tertiary stage of syphilis taken collectively.
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(pathology) A tick-borne disease of cattle caused by the parasite Babesia bigemina.
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A rash caused by trombiculid mites.
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(medicine) An infectious disease caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis.
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A disease of honeybees caused by the parasitic mite Varroa destructor.
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(obsolete) Alphos, a form of leprosy.
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(uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.
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(medicine, archaic, historical) One who believed that maize was the cause of pellagra.
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