About The Word Mange
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Mange
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What's The Definition Of Mange?
[n] a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Mange: Related Terms | Find terms related to Mange: anthrax | aphthous fever | bighead | black quarter | blackleg | blackwater | blind staggers | bloody flux | broken wind | cattle plague | charbon | distemper | foot-and-mouth disease | gapes | glanders | heaves | hog cholera | hoof-and-mouth disease | hydrophobia | liver rot | loco | loco disease | locoism | mad staggers | malignant catarrh | malignant catarrhal fever | malignant pustule | megrims | milzbrand | paratuberculosis | pip | pseudotuberculosis | quarter evil | rabies | rinderpest | rot | scabies | sheep rot | splenic fever | staggers | stringhalt | swine dysentery | Texas fever See Also | animal disease Mange In Webster's Dictionary \Mange\, n. [See {Mangy}.] (Vet.)
The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.
{Mange insect} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of
small parasitic mites, which burrow in the skin of cattle.
horses, dogs, and other animals, causing the mange. The
mange insect of the horse ({Psoroptes, or Dermatodectes,
equi}), and that of cattle ({Symbiotes, or Dermatophagys,
bovis}) are the most important species. See {Acarina}.
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