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milk sickness

 
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–noun Pathology.
a disease of humans, formerly common in some parts of the Middle West, caused by consuming milk from cattle that have been poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot.
Origin:
1815–25, Americanism
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milk sickness  
n.  

  1. An acute, now rare disease characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain that affects individuals who eat dairy products or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot.

  2. See tremble.

trem·ble   (trěm'bəl)   
intr.v.   trem·bled, trem·bling, trem·bles

  1. To shake involuntarily, as from excitement or anger; quake. See Synonyms at shake.

  2. To feel fear or anxiety: I tremble at the very thought of it.

  3. To vibrate or quiver: leaves trembling in the breeze.

n.  

  1. The act or state of trembling.

  2. A convulsive fit of shaking. Often used in the plural with the.

  3. trembles (used with a sing. verb)

    1. An infectious viral disease of sheep that is transmitted by the tick Ixodes ricinus and affects the nervous system, causing galloping and trotting by little leaps and often prolonged trembling. Also called louping ill.

    2. Poisoning of domestic animals, especially cattle and sheep, caused by eating white snakeroot or rayless goldenrod and characterized by muscular tremors and weakening. Also called milk sickness.


[Middle English tremblen, from Old French trembler, from Vulgar Latin *tremulāre, from Latin tremulus, trembling; see tremulous.]
trem'bler n., trem'bling·ly adv., trem'bly adj.
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Main Entry: milk sickness
Function: noun
: an acute disease characterized by weakness, vomiting, and constipation and caused by eating dairy products or meat from cattleaffected with trembles
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milk sickness n.
An acute, now rare disease characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain, caused by eating dairy products or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot.

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