FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE


Meaning of FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ 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 — called also foot-and-mouth, hoof-and-mouth disease — compare hand , foot and mouth disease

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