foot-and-mouth disease

[foo t-n-mouth] /ˈfʊt nˈmaʊθ/

noun, Veterinary Pathology

an acute, contagious, febrile disease of cattle, hogs, sheep, and other hoofed animals, caused by any of various rhinoviruses and characterized by vesicular eruptions in the mouth and about the hoofs, teats, and udder.

Also called hoof-and-mouth disease, aphthous fever, aftosa.

Origin

1860-65

British Dictionary definitions for foot-and-mouth disease

foot-and-mouth disease

noun

an acute highly infectious viral disease of cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats, characterized by the formation of vesicular eruptions in the mouth and on the feet, esp around the hoofs Also called hoof-and-mouth disease, aphtha, aphthous fever Technical name contagious stomatitis

foot-and-mouth disease in Medicine

foot-and-mouth disease n.
An acute, highly contagious degenerative viral disease of cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals, characterized by fever and the eruption of vesicles around the mouth and hoofs. Also called hoof-and-mouth disease.

foot-and-mouth disease in Science

foot-and-mouth disease
A highly contagious disease of cattle and other hoofed animals caused by any of various viruses of the family Picornaviridae and the genus Aphthovirus , characterized by fever and the presence of blisters around the mouth and hooves.