contagious abortion

contagious abortion
noun
an infectious disease of domestic animals often resulting in spontaneous abortion; transmittable to human beings
• Syn: ↑brucellosis, ↑Bang's disease
• Hypernyms: ↑zoonosis, ↑zoonotic disease

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noun
1. : brucellosis in domestic animals characterized by abortion:
a. : bovine brucellosis caused by a brucella (Brucella abortus), contracted by ingestion, by copulation, or possibly by wound infection, and characterized by proliferation of the organism in the fetal membranes inducing abortion, subsequent invasion of the regional lymph nodes and udder with the formation of chronic foci of infection, and sometimes reinvasion of the uterus when pregnancy is reestablished, though a degree of local immunity usually appears after one or more abortions, an affected cow carrying her calf to term even though retaining a chronic brucella infection outside the uterus
b. : any brucellosis of swine or goats having a somewhat similar course to bovine brucellosis but usually caused by different brucellae
2. : any of several contagious or infectious diseases of domestic animals marked by abortion (as vibrionic abortion of sheep or an acute salmonellosis of the mare)

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Vet. Pathol.
1. brucellosis of domestic cattle, an infectious disease characterized by spontaneous abortion and caused by the bacterium Brucella abortus; Bang's disease.
2. any of several diseases causing spontaneous abortion of domestic animals, as vibriosis or salmonellosis.
[1905-10]

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contagious abortion
Contagious bacterial infections of cattle and of horses, causing abortion
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Main Entry: ↑abort
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contagious abortion see ↑brucellosis
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Main Entry: ↑contagion

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contagious abortion,
Bang's disease; brucellosis in cattle.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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