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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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Loco Disease
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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