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milk fever
noun
- Pathology. fever coinciding with the beginning of lactation, formerly believed to be due to lactation but really due to infection.
- Veterinary Pathology. an acute disorder of calcium metabolism affecting dairy cows shortly after calving, causing somnolence and paralysis of the hind legs.
milk fever
noun
- a fever that sometimes occurs shortly after childbirth, once thought to result from engorgement of the breasts with milk but now thought to be caused by infection
- Also calledparturient fevereclampsia vet science a disease of cows, goats, etc, occurring shortly after parturition, characterized by low blood calcium levels, paralysis, and loss of consciousness
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Word History and Origins
Origin of milk fever1
First recorded in 1750–60
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