Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An acute, highly contagious degenerative viral disease of cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals, characterized by fever and the eruption of vesicles around the mouth and hooves. It is usually not fatal. Also called hoof-and-mouth disease.
Wiktionary
- n. pathology A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.
WordNet 3.0
- n. acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs
Examples
“They say the breed has never recovered from a disastrous epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease in Spain in 1774, and it is something of a miracle that any Alberes at all exist today.”
“For his American audience, he explained, “We call it foot-and-mouth disease here.””
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“Unlike foot-and-mouth disease which the French call la fièvre aphteuse after its virus and the Germans call Maul- und Klauenseuche, “jaws, muzzle or snout and claw, paw or hoof “, BSE can be transmitted to humans, in rare cases.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘foot-and-mouth disease’.
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ENVI - Collocations DEFG
An extract from the "Zold Tolmacs" project, a HU-EN environmental dictionary compiled by Robert Gulyas in 2000.
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sick animals
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A Mouthy List
Mouth words and phrases. Also check out this mouth list.
mouthful, mouthpiece, mouth-watering, mouthwash, mouthfeel, mouth-filling, mouthguard, mouth breather, mouthpart, mouthless, mouther, mouth-hole and 81 more...
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Small but deadly
Vituperative viruses : vindictive and vicious. This list doesn't even touch on the havoc wrought by bacteria, parasites, and prions.
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