| 释义 |
fistulous withers
noun plural but usually singular in construction
: a deep-seated chronic inflammation of the withers of the horse usually involving the cervical ligaments and the bursas of the vertebral spines and discharging seropurulent or bloody fluid through one or more openings which may be initiated by mechanical injury but of which the development depends on infection especially with the bacterium (Brucella abortus) that causes bovine contagious abortion |