Meaning of MANGE
| Pronunciation: | | meynj
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| | Definition: | | [n] a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people) |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mange\, n. [See {Mangy}.] (Vet.)
The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.
{Mange insect} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
small parasitic mites, which burrow in the skin of cattle.
horses, dogs, and other animals, causing the mange. The
mange insect of the horse ({Psoroptes, or Dermatodectes,
equi}), and that of cattle ({Symbiotes, or Dermatophagys,
bovis}) are the most important species. See {Acarina}.
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| | Related Terms: | | anthrax, aphthous fever, bighead, black quarter, blackleg, blackwater, blind staggers, bloody flux, broken wind, cattle plague, charbon, distemper, foot-and-mouth disease, gapes, glanders, heaves, hog cholera, hoof-and-mouth disease, hydrophobia, liver rot, loco, loco disease, locoism, mad staggers, malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule, megrims, milzbrand, paratuberculosis, pip, pseudotuberculosis, quarter evil, rabies, rinderpest, rot, scabies, sheep rot, splenic fever, staggers, stringhalt, swine dysentery, Texas fever |
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