Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A parasitic disease of many animals, including cattle, swine, sheep, dogs, cats, and poultry, but rarely of humans, resulting from infestation of the alimentary canal by protozoans of the order Coccidia.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A disease caused by the presence of a parasitic coccidium. An affection of this nature in rabbits resembles cancer.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Med.) any of a group of infectious diseases caused by protozoan parasites (coccidia) of the order Coccidia, which infect the intestines of birds, dogs, and other vertebrates.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (veterinary medicine) infestation with coccidia
Etymologies
- New Latin Coccidia, order name, pl. of Coccidium, coccidium; see coccidium + -osis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A major disease problem in most countries is coccidiosis, which is particularly harmful to young rabbits.”
“Nicarbazin is a medicated feed additive used to treat a debilitating poultry disease called coccidiosis, but routine surveillance by the”
“Kirkpatrick says that if one animal has been identified as a coccidiosis case, it is extremely likely that other calves have been exposed and are harboring the coccidia in an intermediate state.”
“We give medicated feed to our three chickens in order to stave off coccidiosis, which is close if not the number one cause of mortality in pullets, and we'd like to keep our chickens alive, thanks.”
“Parasitic diseases such as coccidiosis were found in 23 of 129 litter-based flocks, including five of the 23 free-range flocks included in the study.”
“The FDA said when combined with other animal drugs, 3-Nitro has been used by some in the poultry industry to help control coccidiosis, a parasitic disease that affects the intestinal tracts of animals, and for weight gain.”
“Leaves are dropped into drinking water for chickens as a treatment for coccidiosis and Newcastle disease.”
“Young turkeys are susceptible to parasitic infestation as well as to the same type of bacterial and virus diseases as chickens (for example, fowlpox and coccidiosis).”
“Newcastle disease, fowlpox, pullorum disease, and coccidiosis, for example - all of which are endemic in the Third World - can destroy the entire chicken population over large areas.”
“However, worms, lice, diarrhea (coccidiosis), canker (trichomoniasis), and salmonella (paratyphoid) occur at some time in most domestic breeds.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coccidiosis’.
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Chickens
For more "odd-sounding chicken breeds & chicken-related words," see serendoxity's Fowl Words.
Barred Rock, Rhode Island Red, Australorp, Cochin, Fayoumi, Hamburg, White Leghorn, Minorca, Wyandotte, Golden Penciled H..., Blue Andalusians, Cuckoo Maran and 132 more...
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cc
impeccable, accouterment, accoutrement, cc, access, baccivorous, desiccant, floccular, successor, occidental, laccolithic, laccolith and 143 more...
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Cattle
cattle, cow, beef, steer, heifer, calf, bull, cattle call, Black Angus, Hereford, Holstein, Dwarf Lulu and 402 more...
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 188 more...
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Orwell
Words gathered while slogging through Animal Farm and 1984.
appartchik, swinish, scullery, knacker, animalism, spinney, cockerel, slag, coccidiosis, poultice, superannuate, piebald and 26 more...
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