单词 | grass staggers |
释义 | > as lemmasgrass staggers grass staggers n. (originally) any of various disorders causing incoordination or muscular weakness or spasms in livestock, including louping ill and (U.S.) loco disease; (in later use) spec. a disorder occurring in cows and ewes turned out to grass after parturition, characterized by muscle spasms, convulsions, and a high mortality rate, and associated with an abnormally low concentration of magnesium in the blood (also called grass tetany, hypomagnesaemia). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > dietary disorders dew-bolne?1523 hunger-rot?1523 grass-sick1607 grain-sick1834 hoove1840 grass staggers1858 bloat1878 wobbles1886 grain-founder1890 blowing1891 veld sickness1896 corn-stalk disease1900 cattle-sickness1903 Molteno disease1911 grass tetany1931 1858 Caledonian Mercury 16 Dec. A paper was read by Professor Dick on ‘Stomach or Grass Staggers’. 1889 Science 8 Mar. 176/1 A curious affection which exists among horses in north-western Texas, known as ‘grass-staggers’, which is caused by eating the ‘loco-weed’, which gives rise to the saying that the horses are locoed. 1930 tr. B. Sjollema in Vet. Rec. 17 May 425/1 Grass staggers is characterised by sudden, rapid attacks, often terminating fatally, which appear almost exclusively in milk cows, and then mostly during the first days that the cows are out on grass. 2008 Hobby Farms May 30/1 The symptoms..point to a syndrome known as ‘grass tetany’, or ‘grass staggers’. grass staggers a. plural (construed as singular). Used as a name for various diseases affecting domestic animals, of which a staggering gait is a symptom. Also with various defining words, indicating the characteristics or the supposed cause of the disease, e.g. blind staggers, grass staggers, mad staggers, sleepy staggers, stomach staggers. Cf. staver n.3The staggers in sheep is caused by the presence of a hydatid (Cœnurus, the larva of a tapeworm) in the brain. ΚΠ 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 134 If he [sc. a bullock] haue the Staggers, he wyl looke very red about the eyes. 1596 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell: Hogges 277 For the staggars in a hog. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer viii. 820 Some sheep..get the staggers; some the scab. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 18 Aug. (1974) VIII. 390 One of our coach-horses fell sick of the staggers, so as he was ready to fall down. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 413 The long-legged hogs, as it were double-jointed at the knee, are of a breed subject to the staggers. 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. vi. 279 A sort of Frenzy, resembling the Mad-Staggers. 1753 J. Bartlet Gentleman's Farriery ix. 77 Farriers generally include all distempers of the head under two general denominations, viz. Staggers and Convulsions. 1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) vi. 113 The attack is usually sudden—the horse is dull, lethargic, and almost as comatose as in stomach-staggers. 1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician II. i. xv. 72 Three of them [horses] were seized with the staggers, and..fell down dead. 1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 130/2 Inflammation of the brain, phrensy, mad staggers or sough (phrenitis), and apoplexy. 1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 41 A correspondent in the London Agricultural Gazette..admits, that,..he had ‘never brought up but two to be a'most hens’, and that they took the megrims (staggers,) and died. 1858 J. Hogg Microscope (ed. 3) ii. iii. 441 If a lamb is the subject of a feeding experiment with Tænia serrata..within a fortnight symptoms of a disease known as ‘staggers’ are manifested. 1860 E. Mayhew Illustr. Horse Doctor 7 Sleepy staggers. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 41 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Blind staggers has been somewhat fatal in the south and west. 1883 W. Robertson Textbk. Pract. Equine Med. 382 Grass staggers. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 1106 The allied organism Cœnurus, which produces the ‘gid’ or ‘staggers’. < as lemmas |
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