SHIPPING FEVER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market)

Synonyms:

shipping fever; shipping pneumonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("shipping fever" is a kind of...):

blood poisoning; septicaemia; septicemia (invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection)

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

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