| animal disease | | |
| n. (state) | 1. animal disease | a disease that typically does not affect human beings. |
| ~ warble | a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly. |
| ~ disease | an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning. |
| ~ anaplasmosis | a disease of cattle that is transmitted by cattle ticks; similar to Texas fever. |
| ~ 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. |
| ~ 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 disease of cattle and sheep attributed to a dietary deficiency; characterized by anemia and softening of the bones and a slow stiff gait. |
| ~ hemorrhagic septicemia, pasteurellosis | an acute infectious disease characterized by pneumonia and blood infection. |
| ~ fistula, fistulous withers | 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 | any of various infectious viral diseases of animals. |
| ~ 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 disease of poultry. |
| ~ parrot disease, psittacosis | infectious disease of birds. |
| ~ bacillary white diarrhea, bacillary white diarrhoea, pullorum disease | a serious bacterial disease of young chickens. |
| ~ gall, saddle sore | 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. |
| ~ 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 | a disease of cattle (especially calves). |
| ~ texas fever | an infectious disease of cattle transmitted by the cattle tick. |
| ~ milk sickness, trembles | disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot. |
| ~ zoonosis, zoonotic disease | an animal disease that can be transmitted to humans. |
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