hard pad

hard pad
noun or hard pad disease
: a serious and frequently fatal virus disease of dogs related to and sometimes indistinguishable from common distemper but typically involving bronchopneumonia, severe diarrhea, and a peculiar thickening and hardening of the skin of the pads and nose which commonly peels away as the acute stage of the disease subsides

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hard pad noun
Once considered to be a neurotropic virus disease of dogs, now recognized as a symptom of distemper, causing hardness of the pads of the feet
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Main Entry:hard

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hard pad,
a severe viral disease of dogs similar to distemper and characterized by a hardening of the skin of the pads.

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