FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE


Meaning of FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE in English

noun

: an acute contagious febrile disease affecting especially cloven-footed animals, caused by a filtrable virus, and characterized by ulcerating vesicles in the mouth, about the hoofs, and on the udder and teats — called also aphthous fever

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