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SHIPPING FEVER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market)
Synonyms:
shipping fever; shipping pneumonia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("shipping fever" is a kind of...):
blood poisoning; septicaemia; septicemia (invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection)
animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)
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