Lexic.us

Definition of Milk sickness

1. Noun. Disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot.

2. Noun. Caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles.

Medical Definition of Milk sickness

1. An acute, often fatal disease caused by the ingestion of milk, milk products, or the flesh of cattle or sheep which have a disease known as trembles. It is marked by weakness, anorexia, vomiting, constipation, and sometimes muscular tremors. It is caused by poisoning by white snakeroot (eupatorium rugosum) and the rayless goldenrod (haplopappus heterophyllus). (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Milk Sickness

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