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milk fever definition

milk fever

  1. Now Rare mild puerperal fever: so called because erroneously attributed to an accumulation of milk in the breasts
  2. a disease often occurring in dairy cows shortly after calving, characterized by a drop in blood calcium, paralysis, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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