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.

Exact synonyms: Hoof-and-mouth Disease
Generic synonyms: Animal Disease

Medical Definition of Foot-and-mouth disease

1. 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

foolishness
foolishnesses
foolish woman
foolproof
fools
foolscap
foolscaps
fool around
fool away
foosball
foosballs
foot
foot
Foot's reticulin impregnation stain
foot-and-mouth disease (current term)
foot-and-mouth disease (current term)
foot-and-mouth disease virus
foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccines
foot-drop
foot-lambert
foot-pound
foot-pound
foot-pound-second
foot-pound-second system
foot-poundal
foot-poundal
foot-ton
footage
footages
footbag

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