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Definition of Staggers
1. Noun. A disease of the central nervous system affecting especially horses and cattle; characterized by an unsteady swaying gait and frequent falling.
Definition of Staggers
1. Noun. (plural of stagger) ¹
2. Noun. any of various diseases of animals that affects the nervous system, characterized by a lack of control of the limbs ¹
3. Verb. (third-person singular of stagger) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Staggers
1. stagger [v] - See also: stagger
Medical Definition of Staggers
1. 1. A form of decompression sickness in which vertigo, mental confusion, and muscular weakness are the chief symptoms. 2. A disease in sheep, marked by swaying and uncertain gait, caused by the presence of the larva of the tapeworm Multiceps multiceps in the brain, or by other cerebral lesions. Synonym: gid. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Staggers
Literary usage of Staggers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Horses and Stables by Frederick Wellington John Fitzwygram (1886)
"MAD AND SLEEPY staggers. 547. Nature of tlic diseases. 548. Symptoms of derangement
of tlie Brain. 549. Symptoms of Sleepy staggers or Coma arising ..."
2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"ment, and gire staggers right to examine title In the very forfeiting clause.
... staggers Is required to pay on a day, but on that same day, at the time of ..."
3. The Illustrated Horse Doctor: Being an Accurate and Detailed Account of the by Edward Mayhew (1880)
"staggers means no more than a staggering or unsteady gait; an incapacity in the
... Mad and" sleepy staggers represent only different symptoms or stages of ..."
4. The Horse: With a Treatise of Draught and a Copious Index by William Youatt (1831)
"There are two varieties of it—the sleepy or stomach-staggers, and the mad-
staggers ; frequently, however, they are only different stages of the same ..."
5. The Modern Horse Doctor: Containing Practical Observations on the Causes by George H. Dadd (1856)
"STOMACH staggers.* This is a disease very prevalent in this section of the United
States, and probably originates in derangement of the stomach. ..."
6. The New System of Educating Horses, Including Instructions on Feeding by Dennis Magner (1870)
"Some writers and practitioners assert that there is a disease known as stomach
staggers. I have never seen a case where it was necessary to treat the ..."
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