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    SHIPPING PNEUMONIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    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)play

    Synonyms:

    shipping fever; shipping pneumonia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("shipping pneumonia" 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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