lungsickness

noun

lungsickness

noun

Etymology From lung + sickness.

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Medicine, Pathology, Sciences Archaic A contagious bovine pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma mycoides.

  • Lungsickness is still bad at the farm Coleford; 22 heade of cattle have died up to date.1901, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 2, page 68:

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