Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
malignant edema Function:
noun : an acute often fatal toxemia of wild and domestic animals that follows wound infection by an anaerobic toxin-producingbacterium of the genus
Clostridium (
C. septicum) and is characterized by anorexia, intoxication, fever, and soft fluid-filled swellings —compare
BLACK DISEASE, BLACKLEG; BRAXY 1
