释义 |
mud fever noun 1. : a chapped inflamed condition of the skin of the legs and belly of a horse due to irritation from mud or drying resulting from washing off mud-spatters and closely related or identical in nature to grease heel 2. : a severe enteritis of turkeys 3. : a mild leptospirosis that occurs chiefly in European agricultural and other workers in wet soil, is caused by infection with an organism (Leptospira grippotyphosa) present in native field mice, and is marked by fever and headache without accompanying jaundice |