ANIMAL DISEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does animal disease mean? 

• ANIMAL DISEASE (noun)
  The noun ANIMAL DISEASE has 1 sense:

1. a disease that typically does not affect human beings

  Familiarity information: ANIMAL DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANIMAL DISEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A disease that typically does not affect human beings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("animal disease" is a kind of...):

disease (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "animal disease"):

myxomatosis (a viral disease (usually fatal) of rabbits)

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))

moon blindness; mooneye (recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness)

murrain (any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague)

red water (a disease of cattle; characterized by hematuria)

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)

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)

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)

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)

warble (a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly)

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)

 Context examples 

Animal disease whose pathologic mechanisms are sufficiently similar to those of a human disease for the animal disease to serve as a model.

(Animal Model of Disease, NCI Thesaurus)