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Definition of Locoism
1. Noun. A disease of livestock caused by locoweed poisoning; characterized by weakness and lack of coordination and trembling and partial paralysis.
Definition of Locoism
1. a disease of livestock [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Locoism
Literary usage of Locoism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1902)
"Aside from the study of locoism there are such problems as the relation of ergotism
to the ergot of rye; of lathyrism to the seeds of the species of ..."
2. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1891)
"Consequently the word "rattled" designates a mild form of locoism. Burros.
Throughout the west, and especially in New Mexico, the term burro is applied to a ..."
3. American Druggist (1888)
"For only about five per cent of those animals who eat this plant become attacked
with locoism, or die. and if the experiment failed, it would at once be ..."
4. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1903)
"... to the disease of such varied symptoms, sometimes called "locoism"? If we
could assume that the loco, like clover and alfalfa—belonging, as it does, ..."
5. Spanish Institutions of the Southwest by Frank Wilson Blackmar (1891)
"Consequently the word "rattled" designates a mild form of locoism. Burros.
Throughout the west, and especially in New Mexico, the term burro is applied to a ..."
6. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1890)
"... but he said that the neighboring ranchers said that the experiment had been
successfully tried before, producing locoism in the animal. ..."
7. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1892)
"The author comes to the conclusion that '•'locoism" is not caused directly or
indirectly by any poisonous substance ingested by the animal, but is, first, ..."
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