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lung sick

lung sick is the alternative form of lung-sick.

lung sick is the alternative form of lungsickness.

Meaning of lungsickness

Noun

lungsickness (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A contagious bovine pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma mycoides.
    • Lungsickness is still bad at the farm Coleford; 22 heade of cattle have died up to date.1901, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 2, page 68
    Synonyms:
    contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, CBPP

Questions about lung sick

What is lung sick the alternative form of?
Lung sick is the alternative form of lung-sick.

Words near lung sick in the dictionary

  1. lung fever
  2. lung fields
  3. lung lichen
  4. lung power
  5. Lung Shan
  6. lung sick
  7. lung sickness
  8. lung toilet
  9. lung volume
  10. lung volumes
  11. lung-busting

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