Animal Disease (Noun)
Meaning
A disease that typically does not affect human beings.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- Foot-and-mouth disease is a highly contagious animal disease that affects cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, pigs, and sheep.
- Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease, is a fatal animal disease that affects cattle.
- The horse suffered from equine infectious anemia, a serious animal disease that has no cure.
- Rabies is typically an animal disease, but it can be transmitted to humans through bites or scratches.
- Scrapie is a degenerative animal disease that affects the nervous systems of sheep and goats.
Hyponyms
- Parrot Disease
- Pasteurellosis
- BSE
- Chorea
- Bacillary White Diarrhea
- Mad Cow Disease
- Hoof-and-mouth Disease
- Broken Wind
- Sheep Rot
- Mooneye
- Blind Staggers
- Vaccinia
- Fistula
- Distomatosis
- Shipping Pneumonia
- Locoism
- Cattle Plague
- Brooder Pneumonia
- Gall
- Milk Sickness
- Zoonotic Disease
- Liver Rot
- Bacillary White Diarrhoea