Definition of Foot-and-mouth disease
1. Noun. Acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs.
Medical Definition of Foot-and-mouth disease
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A highly infectious disease of wide distribution and great economic importance, occurring in cattle, swine, sheep, goats and all wild and domestic cloven-footed animals caused by a picornavirus (genus Rhinovirus) and characterised by vesicular eruptions in the mouth, tongue, hoofs, and udder; humans are rarely affected.
Synonym: aftosa.
(05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foot-and-mouth Disease
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