ABSP - Veterinary

Veterinary

Words

aftosa	a disease of hoofed mammals > AFTOSAS.
anaplasmosis	a tick-borne disease of cattle and sheep.
anbury angleberry	a soft fleshy tumour in horses.
anthracic	of or relating to ANTHRAX.
anthrax	a disease of cattle, communicable to humans > ANTHRAXES or ANTHRACES.
aspergillosis	an animal disease caused by ASPERGILLI > ASPERGILLOSES.
babesia	a parasite causing cattle fever.
babesiasis babesiosis	a cattle infection caused by the parasite BABESIA, aka REDWATER > BABESIASES , BABESIOSES.
blackwater	a cattle disease.
bonamiasis	a fatal disease of oysters > BONAMIASES.
bothole	a hole in an animal's hide due to boring by a BOT.
bots	a cattle disease caused by botfly larvae.
braxy	a disease of sheep causing fits.
brucellosis	an undulant fever of cattle > BRUCELLOSES.
bullnose	a disease of pigs, aka swine snout disease.
burdizzo	a surgical instrument used to castrate animals > BURDIZZOS.
capellet	a cyst-like swelling on a horse's elbow, or on the back part of the hock.
cloacitis	inflammation of the CLOACA in birds > CLOACITISES.
cowpox	a disease of cows.
crepance	a sore on a horse's hind ankle-joint.
cropbound	of poultry, suffering from impaction of the crop.
dourine	a contagious disease of horses.
enzootic	a disease affecting the animals of a district.
epizootic	a disease affecting many animals of one kind at the same time.
epizooty	a temporary but widespread outbreak of a particular disease among animals; an EPIZOOTIC disease.
equinia	a horse disease, aka GLANDERS.
farcied	afflicted with FARCY.
farcin farcy	chronic GLANDERS, a disease of horses.
foulbrood	a bacterial disease of bee larvae.
fowlpox	a virus disease of poultry.
gallsickness	a tick-borne disease affecting the livers of cattle, sheep and goats.
gapy	infested with GAPEWORMS > GAPIER, GAPIEST.
garget	an inflammation of the throat or udder in cows, swine, etc.
gargety	affected by, or related to, GARGET.
gid	a sheep disease.
glandered glanderous	affected with GLANDERS.
glanders	a disease of horses. No GLANDER*.
gourdiness	the state of being GOURDY.
gourdy	of a horse, swollen in the legs > GOURDIER, GOURDIEST.
granulosis	any of numerous diseases of insect larvae marked by minute granular inclusions in infected cells and caused by viruses > GRANULOSES.
hairball	a compact mass of hair that forms in the stomach of cats, calves, etc., as a result of licking and swallowing the fur, and causes indigestion and convulsions.
heartwater	a fatal tick-borne viral disease of cattle, sheep and goats.
hoofbound	of a horse, having dry contracted hooves, with resultant pain and lameness.
hoofrot	footrot > HOOFROTS.
hoove	a disease of cattle and sheep; (verb) (Spenser) to hover, loiter.
hooven hoven	having HOOVE, a disease of cattle and sheep.
horsepox	a skin disease of horses.
laminitis	inflammation of the laminated tissue structure to which the hoof of a horse is attached, aka FOUNDER > LAMINITISES.
lampas	an inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse > LAMPASES.
lampasse	= LAMPAS > LAMPASSES.
lampers	= LAMPAS > LAMPERSES.
lib	to geld > LIBS, LIBBING, LIBBED.
locoism	a disease of livestock, caused by ingestion of LOCOWEED.
malander mallander mallender	an eruption of the skin behind a horse's knee.
mange	an inflammation of the skin of animals caused by parasitic mites.
mangey mangy	scabby > MANGIER, MANGIEST; MANGILY.
manginess	the state of being MANGY.
maungy	mangy > MAUNGIER, MAUNGIEST.
mawbound	of cattle, constipated by impaction of the rumen.
molybdenosis	a disease of cattle and sheep, characterized by chronic diarrhoea and emaciation, caused by an excess of molybdenum in the diet > MOLYBDENOSES.
moorill	a cattle disease of moorland districts, marked by haemoglobin in the urine.
mose	a doubtful verb, applied to some disease in a horse > MOSES, MOSING, MOSED.
murrain murren murrin murrion	a cattle disease
murrained	affected with the MURRAIN, a cattle disease.
myxo	myxomatosis > MYXOS.
myxomatosis	fatal contagious disease of rabbits > MYXOMATOSES.
myxomatous	suffering from MYXOMATOSIS.
nagana ngana	a tropical disease of cattle transmitted by tsetse fly.
nematodiriasis	a disease of young lambs caused by nematodirus larvae > NEMATODIRIASES.
ngana	see NAGANA.
orf	a viral infection of sheep.
ornithosis	a disease like PSITTACOSIS, infecting domestic fowl, transmissible to man > ORNITHOSES.
panzootic	a disease that affects all the animals in a given area.
pebrine	a destructive protozoan disease of silkworms.
piroplasm	a parasite causing cattle fever, aka BABESIA.
piroplasma	a parasite causing cattle fever, aka BABESIA > PIROPLASMATA.
psittacosis	contagious parrot disease, causing fever and pneumonia in humans > PSITTACOSES.
pullorum	as in pullorum disease, an acute bacterial disease of very young birds.
quitter quittor	a fistulous sore on a horse's hoof.
redfoot	a fatal disease of newborn lambs.
redwater	a cattle disease, aka BABESIASIS or BABESIOSIS.
rinderpest	an infectious disease of ruminants, esp. oxen.
ringbone	a morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones.
ringwomb	a complication at lambing resulting from the failure of the cervix to open.
roup	an infectious disease of the respiratory passages of poultry; hoarseness; (verb) to sell by auction.
roupy	having ROUP > ROUPIER, ROUPIEST; ROUPILY.
sallenders	an eruption on the hind leg of a horse. N.B. no SALLENDER*.
sandcrack	a deep crack or fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof, often causing lameness.
scrapie	a usually fatal viral sheep disease.
sidebones	ossifications of the lateral cartilages of a horse's hoof. N.B. no SIDEBONE*.
sitfast	a lump in a horse's skin under the saddle.
spavie spavin	a tumour on a horse's leg.
spaviet	affected with SPAVIE.
spavined	affected with SPAVIN.
spay	to remove the ovaries from (a female animal).
springhalt stringhalt	a jerking lameness in which a horse suddenly twitches up its leg or legs.
spurgall	a place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur; (verb) to gall with the spur.
staggers	a disease in horses, attended with giddiness: hence any bewildering distress.
stringhalt	see SPRINGHALT.
sturdied	affected by STURDY, a disease of sheep.
sturdy	strongly built > STURDIER, STURDIEST; STURDILY; (noun) a disease of sheep.
surra	a trypanosome disease of the blood in horses. [Marathi sura, wheezing].
sweeny swinney	an atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses.
swinepox	a disease of swine.
swinney	see SWEENY.
thoroughpin	a swelling of horses' hocks.
tularaemia tularemia	a disease of rodents caused by a bacterium, and transmissible to humans.
tularaemic	relating to TULARAEMIA.
tularemia	see TULARAEMIA.
tularemic	relating to TULAREMIA.
vives	a disease of horses, a swelling of the submaxillary glands.
waterbrain	a disease of sheep, aka GID.
whitecomb	a fungal disease affecting the combs of certain fowls.
windgall	a puffy swelling around a horse's joints.
windgalled	suffering from WINDGALL, a puffy swelling around a horse's joints.
windsucker	a horse that engages in wind-sucking, a harmful habit of horses in which the animal arches its neck and swallows a gulp of air.
wormil	a lump in the skin of an animal's back.
yellows	jaundice in horses.
zoonosis	a disease of animals which can be transmitted to humans, such as rabies, etc > ZOONOSES.
zoonotic	of or like a ZOONOSIS.

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