| 单词 | mad cow disease |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmad cow disease mad cow disease n. colloquial (chiefly British) bovine spongiform encephalopathy, a progressive, fatal disease of the central nervous system of cattle, prominent signs of which are unsteadiness of gait and behavioural abnormalities. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle murrainc1450 gall1577 gargyse1577 sprenges1577 wisp1577 closh1587 milting1587 moltlong1587 hammer1600 mallet1600 scurvy1604 wither1648 speed1704 nostril dropping1708 bladdera1722 heartsick1725 throstling1726 striking1776 feather-cling1799 hollow-horn1805 weed1811 blood striking1815 the slows1822 toad-bit1825 coast-fever1840 horn-distemper1843 rat's tail1847 whethering1847 milk fever1860 milt-sickness1867 pearl tumour1872 actinomycosis1877 pearl disease1877 rat-tail1880 lumpy jaw1891 niatism1895 cripple1897 rumenitis1897 Rhodesian fever1903 reticulitis1905 barbone1907 contagious abortion1910 trichomoniasis1915 shipping fever1932 New Forest disease1954 bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987 BSE1987 mad cow disease1988 East Coast fever2009 1988 Sunday Tel. 6 Nov. 3/1 Tests on the second bull are expected to confirm that it, too, was the victim of..the incurable ‘mad cow disease’ which riddles the brain with holes and can drive docile animals berserk. 1989 Observer 17 Sept. 4/8 Mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has an incubation period of up to four years. 1990 Australian 17 Jan. 6/3 The British government yesterday denied United States military bases had banned British meat because of ‘mad cow’ disease. 1996 Private Eye 5 Apr. 12/1 In the West Country it is common knowledge that ‘mad cow disease’ was present at epidemic levels long before it was ‘discovered’ by Maffia [sc. Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food] vets in Kent in 1985. < as lemmas |
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