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Acrolein
noun · 78% connection
A limpid, colorless, highly volatile liquid, obtained by the dehydration of glycerin, or the destructive distillation of neutral fats…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Anthrax
noun · 78% connection
An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Ass
noun · 78% connection
A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or dome…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Cattle
n. pl. · 78% connection
Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Charbon
noun · 78% connection
A very contagious and fatal disease of sheep, horses, and cattle. See Maligmant pustule.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Contagious
adjective · 78% connection
Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Contagiousness
noun · 78% connection
The state or condition of being contagious, easily transmitted to others.; "Without factoring in the contagiousness of a disease, we w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Destructive
adjective · 78% connection
Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pern…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Diabetes
noun · 78% connection
A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quanti…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Diphtheria
noun · 78% connection
A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produce…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Dysentery
noun · 78% connection
A disease attended with inflammation and ulceration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to ev…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Eczema
noun · 78% connection
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the disc…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Erysipelas
noun · 78% connection
St. Anthony's fire; a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused inflammation of the skin, which, starting usually from a single poin…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Farcy
noun · 78% connection
A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same natur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Germicide
adjective · 78% connection
Destructive to germs; -- applied to any agent which has a destructive action upon living germs, particularly bacteria, or bacterial ge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Gonorrhoea
noun · 78% connection
A contagious inflammatory disease of the genitourinary tract, affecting especially the urethra and vagina, and characterized by a muco…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Heaves
noun · 78% connection
A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; brok…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
Horse
noun · 78% connection
A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a ver…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: highly, contagious, destructive, disease, horses.
