louping ill

louping ill
noun
Etymology: louping from gerund of loup (I)
: a tick-borne virus disease of sheep and other domestic animals and rarely man that is related to or identical with the Russian spring-summer encephalitis of man and occurs characteristically as a meningoencephalitis accompanied by muscular tremors and spasms followed by varying degrees of paralysis

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/low"ping, loh"-, looh"-/, Vet. Pathol.
an acute viral disease of sheep affecting the nervous system, transmitted by a tick.
[1810-20; see LOUP2]

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