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lung sickness

lung sickness 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 sickness

What is lung sickness the alternative form of?
Lung sickness is the alternative form of lungsickness.

Words near lung sickness in the dictionary

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

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