strangles — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

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

   Uso

   • incontável

   Exemplos

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   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[.]

Substantivo

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

   Sinônimos

   equine distemper

   Termos mais gerais

   distemper