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foot-and-mouth disease

[ foot-n-mouth ]

noun

Veterinary Pathology.
  1. an acute, contagious, febrile disease of cattle, hogs, sheep, and other hoofed animals, caused by any of various rhinoviruses and characterized by vesicular eruptions in the mouth and about the hoofs, teats, and udder.

foot-and-mouth disease

noun

  1. an acute highly infectious viral disease of cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats, characterized by the formation of vesicular eruptions in the mouth and on the feet, esp around the hoofs Also calledhoof-and-mouth diseaseaphthaaphthous fever Technical namecontagious stomatitis
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

foot-and-mouth disease

  1. A highly contagious disease of cattle and other hoofed animals caused by any of various viruses of the family Picornaviridae and the genus Aphthovirus , characterized by fever and the presence of blisters around the mouth and hooves.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of foot-and-mouth disease1

First recorded in 1860–65

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