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单词 hog cholera
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hog cholera

noun

: a highly infectious often fatal disease of swine caused by a flavivirus (species Classical swine fever virus of the genus Pestivirus) and characterized by fever, loss of appetite, weakness, erythematous lesions especially in light-skinned animals, and severe leukopenia

Example Sentences

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Word History

First Known Use

1856, in the meaning defined above

Medical Definition

hog cholera

noun

ˈhäg-, ˈhȯg- How to pronounce hog cholera (audio)
: a highly infectious often fatal disease of swine caused by a flavivirus of the genus Pestivirus (species Classical swine fever virus) and characterized by fever, loss of appetite, weakness, erythematous lesions especially in light-skinned animals, and severe leukopenia

called also swine fever

see african swine fever
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