foot-and-mouth disease

foot-and-mouth disease definition - medical

foot-and-mouth disease

noun
An acute, highly contagious degenerative viral disease of cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals, characterized by fever and the eruption of vesicles around the mouth and hoofs. Also called hoof-and-mouth disease.

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