English > animal disease: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | A disease that typically does not affect human beings. |
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| Narrower | Newcastle disease | disease of domestic fowl and other birds |
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| Texas fever | An infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the cattle tick |
| anaplasmosis | A disease of cattle that is transmitted by cattle ticks |
| aspergillosis, brooder pneumonia | severe respiratory disease of birds that takes the form of an acute rapidly fatal pneumonia in young chickens and turkeys |
| bighead | Any of various diseases of animals characterized by edema of the head and neck |
| black disease, sheep rot, liver rot, distomatosis | A disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products |
| bovine spongiform encephalitis, BSE, mad cow disease | A fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system |
| bull nose | A disease of pigs resulting in swelling of the snout |
| camelpox | A viral disease of camels closely related to smallpox |
| 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 |
| creeps | A disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency |
| distemper | Any of various infectious / infectious viral diseases of animals |
| enterotoxemia | A disease of cattle and sheep that is attributed to toxins absorbed from the intestines |
| fistulous withers, fistula | A chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse |
| 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 / hoofs |
| foot rot | contagious degenerative infection of the feet of hoofed animals (especially cattle and sheep) |
| 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 |
| heaves, broken wind | A chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks |
| hemorrhagic septicemia, pasteurellosis | An acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection |
| hog cholera | Highly infectious virus disease of swine |
| loco disease, locoism | A disease of livestock caused by locoweed poisoning |
| looping ill | An acute viral disease of the nervous system in sheep |
| mange | A persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair |
| moon blindness, mooneye | recurrent eye inflammation in horses |
| murrain | Any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague / plague |
| myxomatosis | A viral disease (usually fatal) of rabbits |
| pip | A disease of poultry |
| psittacosis, parrot disease | infectious disease of birds |
| pullorum disease, bacillary white diarrhea, bacillary white diarrhoea | A serious bacterial disease of young chickens |
| red water | A disease of cattle |
| rhinotracheitis | A respiratory infection of the nose and throat in cattle |
| rinderpest, cattle plague | An acute infectious / infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal) |
| saddle sore, gall | An open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle |
| sand crack | A fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof often causing lameness |
| 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 |
| spavin | A swelling of the hock joint of a horse |
| staggers, blind staggers | A disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle |
| sweating sickness | A disease of cattle (especially calves) |
| trembles, milk sickness | disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot |
| warble | A lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly |
| zoonosis, zoonotic disease | An animal disease that can be transmitted to humans |
| Broader | disease | An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning |
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| Spanish | patología animal |
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