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Definition of Mange
1. Noun. A persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people).
Definition of Mange
1. n. The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.
Definition of Mange
1. Noun. (pathology) A skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mange
1. a skin disease of domestic animals [n -S]
Medical Definition of Mange
1.
See: Mangy] The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mange
Literary usage of Mange
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horse: With a Treatise on Draught by William Youatt, Walker Watson (1866)
"mange in cattle has been propagated to the horse, and from the horse to cattle.
... mange has been said to originate in want of cleanliness in the ..."
2. A Text-book of the Diseases of the Small Domestic Animals by Oscar Victor Brumley (1921)
"mange in dogs has been occasionally overlooked because the pruritus was ascribed
to lice. Prognosis.—Phthiriasis is serious and obstinate when young or ..."
3. Report on the Injurious Insects and Other Animals Observed in the Midland by Walter Edward Collinge (1908)
"REPORT ON SCABIES (mange) IN DOGS AND HORSES An enquiry from a Midland ...
The disease in Man, and various mammals, known as itch, mange, scald, etc., ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Ephraim Williams, Dudley Atkins Tyng, Octavius Pickering, Theron Metcalf, Luther Stearns Cushing, Horace Gray, Charles Allen, Albert Gallatin Browne (1864)
"mange V. Holmes. It is perhaps unnecessary to consider the furl her objection
urged against the validity of this policy, namely, that of the false statement ..."
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