Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
aftosa | a disease of hoofed mammals > AFTOSAS. |
anaplasmosis | a tick-borne disease of cattle and sheep. |
anbury angleberry | a soft fleshy tumour in horses. |
anthracic | of or relating to ANTHRAX. |
anthrax | a disease of cattle, communicable to humans > ANTHRAXES or ANTHRACES. |
aspergillosis | an animal disease caused by ASPERGILLI > ASPERGILLOSES. |
babesia | a parasite causing cattle fever. |
babesiasis babesiosis | a cattle infection caused by the parasite BABESIA, aka REDWATER > BABESIASES , BABESIOSES. |
blackwater | a cattle disease. |
bonamiasis | a fatal disease of oysters > BONAMIASES. |
bothole | a hole in an animal's hide due to boring by a BOT. |
bots | a cattle disease caused by botfly larvae. |
braxy | a disease of sheep causing fits. |
brucellosis | an undulant fever of cattle > BRUCELLOSES. |
bullnose | a disease of pigs, aka swine snout disease. |
burdizzo | a surgical instrument used to castrate animals > BURDIZZOS. |
capellet | a cyst-like swelling on a horse's elbow, or on the back part of the hock. |
cloacitis | inflammation of the CLOACA in birds > CLOACITISES. |
cowpox | a disease of cows. |
crepance | a sore on a horse's hind ankle-joint. |
cropbound | of poultry, suffering from impaction of the crop. |
dourine | a contagious disease of horses. |
enzootic | a disease affecting the animals of a district. |
epizootic | a disease affecting many animals of one kind at the same time. |
epizooty | a temporary but widespread outbreak of a particular disease among animals; an EPIZOOTIC disease. |
equinia | a horse disease, aka GLANDERS. |
farcied | afflicted with FARCY. |
farcin farcy | chronic GLANDERS, a disease of horses. |
foulbrood | a bacterial disease of bee larvae. |
fowlpox | a virus disease of poultry. |
gallsickness | a tick-borne disease affecting the livers of cattle, sheep and goats. |
gapy | infested with GAPEWORMS > GAPIER, GAPIEST. |
garget | an inflammation of the throat or udder in cows, swine, etc. |
gargety | affected by, or related to, GARGET. |
gid | a sheep disease. |
glandered glanderous | affected with GLANDERS. |
glanders | a disease of horses. No GLANDER*. |
gourdiness | the state of being GOURDY. |
gourdy | of a horse, swollen in the legs > GOURDIER, GOURDIEST. |
granulosis | any of numerous diseases of insect larvae marked by minute granular inclusions in infected cells and caused by viruses > GRANULOSES. |
hairball | a compact mass of hair that forms in the stomach of cats, calves, etc., as a result of licking and swallowing the fur, and causes indigestion and convulsions. |
heartwater | a fatal tick-borne viral disease of cattle, sheep and goats. |
hoofbound | of a horse, having dry contracted hooves, with resultant pain and lameness. |
hoofrot | footrot > HOOFROTS. |
hoove | a disease of cattle and sheep; (verb) (Spenser) to hover, loiter. |
hooven hoven | having HOOVE, a disease of cattle and sheep. |
horsepox | a skin disease of horses. |
laminitis | inflammation of the laminated tissue structure to which the hoof of a horse is attached, aka FOUNDER > LAMINITISES. |
lampas | an inflammation and swelling of the soft parts of the roof of the mouth immediately behind the fore teeth in the horse > LAMPASES. |
lampasse | = LAMPAS > LAMPASSES. |
lampers | = LAMPAS > LAMPERSES. |
lib | to geld > LIBS, LIBBING, LIBBED. |
locoism | a disease of livestock, caused by ingestion of LOCOWEED. |
malander mallander mallender | an eruption of the skin behind a horse's knee. |
mange | an inflammation of the skin of animals caused by parasitic mites. |
mangey mangy | scabby > MANGIER, MANGIEST; MANGILY. |
manginess | the state of being MANGY. |
maungy | mangy > MAUNGIER, MAUNGIEST. |
mawbound | of cattle, constipated by impaction of the rumen. |
molybdenosis | a disease of cattle and sheep, characterized by chronic diarrhoea and emaciation, caused by an excess of molybdenum in the diet > MOLYBDENOSES. |
moorill | a cattle disease of moorland districts, marked by haemoglobin in the urine. |
mose | a doubtful verb, applied to some disease in a horse > MOSES, MOSING, MOSED. |
murrain murren murrin murrion | a cattle disease |
murrained | affected with the MURRAIN, a cattle disease. |
myxo | myxomatosis > MYXOS. |
myxomatosis | fatal contagious disease of rabbits > MYXOMATOSES. |
myxomatous | suffering from MYXOMATOSIS. |
nagana ngana | a tropical disease of cattle transmitted by tsetse fly. |
nematodiriasis | a disease of young lambs caused by nematodirus larvae > NEMATODIRIASES. |
neutering | the act of spaying or castrating. |
ngana | see NAGANA. |
orf | a viral infection of sheep. |
ornithosis | a disease like PSITTACOSIS, infecting domestic fowl, transmissible to man > ORNITHOSES. |
panzootic | a disease that affects all the animals in a given area. |
pebrine | a destructive protozoan disease of silkworms. |
piroplasm | a parasite causing cattle fever, aka BABESIA. |
piroplasma | a parasite causing cattle fever, aka BABESIA > PIROPLASMATA. |
psittacosis | contagious parrot disease, causing fever and pneumonia in humans > PSITTACOSES. |
pullorum | as in pullorum disease, an acute bacterial disease of very young birds. |
quitter quittor | a fistulous sore on a horse's hoof. |
redfoot | a fatal disease of newborn lambs. |
redwater | a cattle disease, aka BABESIASIS or BABESIOSIS. |
rinderpest | an infectious disease of ruminants, esp. oxen. |
ringbone | a morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. |
ringwomb | a complication at lambing resulting from the failure of the cervix to open. |
roup | an infectious disease of the respiratory passages of poultry; hoarseness; (verb) to sell by auction. |
roupy | having ROUP > ROUPIER, ROUPIEST; ROUPILY. |
sallenders | an eruption on the hind leg of a horse. N.B. no SALLENDER*. |
sandcrack | a deep crack or fissure in the wall of a horse's hoof, often causing lameness. |
scrapie | a usually fatal viral sheep disease. |
sidebone | an ossification of the lateral cartilages of a horse's hoof. |
sitfast | a lump in a horse's skin under the saddle. |
spavie spavin | a tumour on a horse's leg. |
spaviet | affected with SPAVIE. |
spavined | affected with SPAVIN. |
spay | to remove the ovaries from (a female animal). |
springhalt stringhalt | a jerking lameness in which a horse suddenly twitches up its leg or legs. |
spurgall | a place galled or excoriated by much using of the spur; (verb) to gall with the spur. |
staggers | a disease in horses, attended with giddiness: hence any bewildering distress. |
stringhalt | see SPRINGHALT. |
sturdied | affected by STURDY, a disease of sheep. |
sturdy | strongly built > STURDIER, STURDIEST; STURDILY; (noun) a disease of sheep. |
surra | a trypanosome disease of the blood in horses. [Marathi sura, wheezing]. |
sweeny swinney | an atrophy of the muscles of the shoulder in horses. |
swinepox | a disease of swine. |
swinney | see SWEENY. |
thoroughpin | a swelling of horses' hocks. |
tularaemia tularemia | a disease of rodents caused by a bacterium, and transmissible to humans. |
tularaemic | relating to TULARAEMIA. |
tularemia | see TULARAEMIA. |
tularemic | relating to TULAREMIA. |
vives | a disease of horses, a swelling of the submaxillary glands. |
waterbrain | a disease of sheep, aka GID. |
whitecomb | a fungal disease affecting the combs of certain fowls. |
windgall | a puffy swelling around a horse's joints. |
windgalled | suffering from WINDGALL, a puffy swelling around a horse's joints. |
windsucker | a horse that engages in wind-sucking, a harmful habit of horses in which the animal arches its neck and swallows a gulp of air. |
wormil | a lump in the skin of an animal's back. |
yellows | jaundice in horses. |
zoonosis | a disease of animals which can be transmitted to humans, such as rabies, etc > ZOONOSES. |
zoonotic | of or like a ZOONOSIS. |