pullorum dis-ease
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əm, -ˈloʊr- noun Veterinary Pathology.
a highly contagious, frequently fatal disease of young poultry caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum ( pullorum ), transmitted by the infected hen during egg production, and characterized by weakness, loss of appetite, and diarrhea.
Origin:
1925–30; < Neo-Latin (Bacterium) pullorum former name of the bacterium, Latin pullōrum, genitive plural of pullus cockerel, chicken (see pullet)
1925–30; < Neo-Latin (Bacterium) pullorum former name of the bacterium, Latin pullōrum, genitive plural of pullus cockerel, chicken (see pullet)
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| —n | |
| Also called: bacillary white diarrhoea an acute serious bacterial disease of very young birds, esp chickens, characterized by a whitish diarrhoea: caused by Salmonella pullorum, transmitted during egg production | |
| [Latin pullōrum of chickens, from pullus chicken] | |
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