Definition of Loco disease

1. Noun. A disease of livestock caused by locoweed poisoning; characterized by weakness and lack of coordination and trembling and partial paralysis.

Exact synonyms: Locoism
Generic synonyms: Animal Disease

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loco Disease

locksmithings
locksmiths
locksmithy
lockstep
locksteps
lockstitch
lockstitched
lockstitches
lockstitching
lockt
lockup
lockups
locky
loco
loco citato
loco disease (current term)
locobase
locoed
locoes
locofoco
locofocos
locoing
locoism
locoisms
locoman
locomen
locomote
locomoted
locomotes
locomoting

Literary usage of Loco disease

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The World Book: Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture edited by Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke (1917)
"Loco is the Spanish word for crazy, and was applied to the plant because of the peculiar actions of an animal suffering from an acute form of loco disease. ..."

2. Barium, a cause of the loco-weed disease by Albert Cornelius Crawford (1908)
"16 loco-plant experiments 33 loco poisoning, notes 16,10,20,26 locoed, symptoms 13 susceptibility to loco disease 12 Hough, W., reference to work 35 Howard, ..."

3. Farmer's Cyclopedia of Live Stock by Earley Vernon Wilcox, Clarence Beaman Smith (1908)
"Controversy has prevailed regarding the loco disease. ... There is no medical treatment for loco disease, but affected animals may be removed from pastures ..."

4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"Stomach worms and the common tapeworm of the sheep have also been supposed to cause loco disease. It is impossible, however, for this to be the main cause ..."

5. Text Book of Veterinary Medicine by James Law (1905)
"The one fed loco acquired the loco disease with the symptoms described above while the other, eating ordinary food only, remained healthy. ..."

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