foot-and-mouth disease

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Definitions of foot-and-mouth disease words

noun foot-and-mouth disease an acute, contagious, febrile disease of cattle, hogs, sheep, and other hoofed animals, caused by any of various rhinoviruses and characterized by vesicular eruptions in the mouth and about the hoofs, teats, and udder. 1
uncountable noun foot-and-mouth disease Foot-and-mouth disease or foot-and-mouth is a serious and highly infectious disease that affects cattle, sheep, pigs, and goats. 0
noun foot-and-mouth disease an acute highly infectious viral disease of cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats, characterized by the formation of vesicular eruptions in the mouth and on the feet, esp around the hoofs 0
noun foot-and-mouth disease an acute, highly contagious viral disease of cloven-footed animals, characterized by fever and by blisters in the mouth and around the hoofs; hoof-and-mouth disease: it is sometimes transmitted to humans 0
noun foot-and-mouth disease (pathology) A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves. 0

before 1860

One of the 29% newest English words

First recorded in 1860-65

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