- foot-and-mouthdisease
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foot-and-mouth disease (fo͝ot'n-mouthʹ)
n.
An acute, highly contagious degenerative viral disease of cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals, characterized by fever and the eruption of vesicles around the mouth and hooves. It is usually not fatal. Also called hoof-and-mouth disease.
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Universalium. 2010.