|
|
Definition of Rinderpest
1. Noun. An acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes.
Definition of Rinderpest
1. n. A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neat cattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattle plague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.
Definition of Rinderpest
1. Noun. a contagious disease of ruminants and swine caused by an RNA virus of the genus ''Morbillivirus'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rinderpest
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Rinderpest
1. A viral disease of cloven-hoofed animals caused by morbillivirus. It may be acute, subacute, or chronic with the major lesions characterised by inflammation and ulceration of the entire digestive tract. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rinderpest
Literary usage of Rinderpest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1877)
"rinderpest. [The Secretary of the Treasury having submitted to the Department of
Agriculture the question, Whether the disease of rinderpest could be ..."
2. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1904)
"In rinderpest the ulcers are clear-cut and pin-point in appearance, do not run
together, ... THE PROPHYLACTIC TREATMENT OF rinderpest BY MEANS OF PREVENTIVE ..."
3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1866)
"The rinderpest w rapidly subsiding, and we are all congratulating ... Dr.
Farr states that rinderpest offers no exception to the general rule which obtains ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art. by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1871)
"Mr. Hope said that on an experimental farm belonging to a company in which he
was interested, pecuniarily and scientifically, rinderpest broke out in the ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1871)
"Mr. Hope said that on an experimental farm belonging to a company in which he
was interested, pecuniarily and scientifically, rinderpest broke out in the ..."
6. Special pathology and therapeutics of the diseases of domestic animals v. 2 by Ferenc Hutyra (1912)
"The oriental rinderpest represents an acute febrile, contagious, ... The attention
of experts has been directed to rinderpest from earliest, times, ..."
Other Resources:
