strangles — Dictionnaire anglais

Nom

1. A disease of horses caused by an infection by the bacterium Streptococcus equi.

   Usage

   • indénombrable

   Exemples

   Plus d’exemples (2)

   The Vives, like the strangles, is most incident to young horses, and usually proceeds from the same causes, such as catching cold, being over-heated, or over-worked, about the time of shedding their teeth.

   Modern man, wherever he goes, plants the seeds of disaster among all things primitive. His horses and cattle carry ticks and strangles and pleurisy; his sheep carry pest seed[.]

Nom

1. an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes

   Synonymes

   equine distemper

   Termes génériques

   distemper