pulpy kidney disease

pulpy kidney disease
noun or pulpy kidney
: a destructive enterotoxemia of lambs caused by clostridia (especially Clostridium welchii) and characterized by softening and degeneration of the kidneys and often by accumulation of fluid about the heart

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