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Newcastle disease

an acute viral disease of poultry and other birds, characterized by pneumonia and encephalomyelitis and caused by a paramyxovirus

Etymology: after Newcastle(-upon-Tyne)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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