FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE


Meaning of FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE in English

noun Date: 1862 an acute contagious febrile disease especially of cloven-footed animals that is caused by serotypes of a picornavirus (species Foot-and-mouth disease virus of the genus Aphthovirus ) and is marked by ulcerating vesicles in the mouth, about the hooves, and on the udder and teats

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