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SHIPPING FEVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shipping fever mean? 

SHIPPING FEVER (noun)
  The noun SHIPPING FEVER has 1 sense:

1. 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)play

  Familiarity information: SHIPPING FEVER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SHIPPING FEVER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

shipping fever; shipping pneumonia

Hypernyms ("shipping fever" is a kind of...):

blood poisoning; septicaemia; septicemia (invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection)

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)


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