actinomycotic
oʊ noun Veterinary Pathology, Pathology.
an infectious, inflammatory disease caused by Actinomyces israelii in humans and A. bovis in domestic animals, and characterized by lumpy, often suppurating tumors, especially, about the jaws.
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actinomycosis (ˌæktɪnəʊmaɪˈkəʊsɪs) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
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| Nontechnical name: lumpy jaw a fungal disease of cattle and of cats and dogs, sometimes transmitted to humans esp by bites, characterized by a swelling of the affected part, most often the jaw or lungs | |
| actinomycotic | |
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| actinomycosis (ˌæktɪnəʊmaɪˈkəʊsɪs) | |
| —n | |
| Nontechnical name: lumpy jaw a fungal disease of cattle and of cats and dogs, sometimes transmitted to humans esp by bites, characterized by a swelling of the affected part, most often the jaw or lungs | |
| actinomycotic | |
| —adj | |
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actinomycosis ac·ti·no·my·co·sis (āk'tə-nō-mī-kō'sĭs)
n.
An inflammatory disease of cattle, hogs, and sometimes humans, caused by microorganisms of the genus Actinomyces and characterized by lumpy tumors of the mouth, neck, chest, and abdomen.
ac'ti·no·my·cot'ic (-kŏt'ĭk) adj.
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