Foot and mouth disease

Main Entry: foot–and–mouth disease
Function: noun
: an acute contagious febrile disease especially of cloven-hoofed animals that is caused by any of severalpicornaviruses (genus Aphthovirus) and is marked by ulcerating vesicles in the mouth, about the hooves, and on the udder and teats called also aftosa, aphthous fever,foot-and-mouth, hoof-and-mouth disease; —compare HAND-FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE

foot-and-mouth disease 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 hoofs. Also called hoof-and-mouth disease.