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Definition of coast disease in English: coast diseasenoun 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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