Canine Distemper Definition

noun
An acute, often fatal infectious disease of domestic dogs, wild canids, and certain other animals, caused by a morbillivirus and characterized by fever, lethargy, vomiting, coughing, discharge from the eyes and nose, and often neurological symptoms.
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Other Word Forms of Canine Distemper

Noun

Singular:
canine distemper
Plural:
canine distempers

Canine Distemper Sentence Examples

  • This leaves a gray zone of serologic testing for the core vaccines of canine distemper and canine parvovirus as well as canine adenovirus.

  • This group includes canine distemper which infects carnivores, rinderpest which is a disease of artiodactyls and the human measles virus.

  • In fact, Fromm introduced the first canine distemper vaccine in the 1930's.

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