Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
hog cholera Pronunciation:
'häg-, 'hog- Function:
noun : a highly infectious often fatal disease of swine caused by a flavivirus (genus
Pestivirus) and characterized by fever, loss of appetite, weakness, erythematous lesions especially in light-skinned animals, and severe leukopenia called also
swine fever; —see
AFRICAN SWINE FEVER