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单词 coast disease
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Definition of coast disease in English:

coast disease

noun
mass nounAustralian
  • A disease of sheep caused by deficiency in certain minerals, formerly prevalent in coastal southern Australia.

    the application of copper sulphate eliminated coast disease
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Profound anaemia with a gross lack of red cells was a common feature of coast disease.
    • He was an old man of 98, but with undimmed memories of the remarkable bloom of life brought to the country once blighted by coast disease.
    • The veterinary pathologist shows that coast disease in Western Australia is identical with the disease of the same name in South Australia.
    • In 1928, a visiting South African veterinarian suggested that coast disease might be caused by a deficiency of phosphorus.
    • A cure for coast disease, a wasting disease of sheep, was discovered in the late 1930s by Marston and his team at the Division of Animal Nutrition.
    • Cobalt deficiency was identified as the cause of coast disease in sheep.
    • In the early days of investigation into coast disease, his property was designated an experimental farm and he was made a field officer.
    • Do you think that destroying the mallee does away with coast disease?
    • At the same time, a chemist with a background in geology was mapping out the areas affected by coast disease on Kangaroo Island.
    • If the sheep were not moved inland every year, they became anaemic and wasted away until, often, they died—the settlers called this mysterious ailment coast disease.
 
 
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