pullorum disease

pullorum disease
noun
a serious bacterial disease of young chickens
• Hypernyms: ↑animal disease

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\\pəˈlōrəm-, -lȯrəm-\ noun also pullorum (-s)
Etymology: Latin pullorum, gen. plural of pullus young of an animal, foal, chick — more at foal
: salmonellosis of the chicken and less commonly of other birds that is caused by infection with a bacterium (Salmonella pullorum) transmitted both through the egg and from chick to chick, that is highly fatal in the young and is marked by weakness, lassitude, lack of appetite, and commonly by white or yellowish diarrhea, and that is frequently symptomless in mature birds but persists as an infection in the ovary resulting in lowered egg production and infertility and passing of the infection to the next generation — see bacillary white diarrhea

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/peuh lawr"euhm, -lohr"-/, Vet. Pathol.
a highly contagious, frequently fatal disease of young poultry caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum (pullorum), transmitted by the infected hen during egg production, and characterized by weakness, loss of appetite, and diarrhea.
[1925-30; < NL (Bacterium) pullorum former name of the bacterium, L pullorum, gen. pl. of pullus cockerel, chicken (see PULLET)]

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pullorum disease /pə-lōrˈem diz-ēz or pə-lörˈəm/ (veterinary medicine)
noun
A serious, often fatal, disease of young poultry caused by the bacterium Salmonella pullorum (formerly Bacterium pullorum)
ORIGIN: L pullorum, genitive pl of pullus chicken

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  • pullorum disease — noun Etymology: New Latin pullorum (specific epithet of Salmonella pullorum), from Latin, of chickens (genitive plural of pullus) Date: 1929 a destructive typically diarrheal salmonellosis especially of young domestic chickens that is caused by a …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • pullorum disease — /pʊˈlɔrəm dəziz/ (say poo lawruhm duhzeez) noun an egg transmitted bacterial disease of poultry, frequently a cause of heavy death losses in very young chickens. {pullorum, genitive plural of Latin pullus cockerel} …  

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  • animal disease — ▪ non human Introduction       an impairment of the normal state of an animal that interrupts or modifies its vital functions.       Concern with diseases that afflict animals dates from the earliest human contacts with animals and is reflected… …   Universalium

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