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farcy
[ fahr-see ]
noun
- a form of glanders chiefly affecting the skin and superficial lymphatic vessels of horses and mules.
farcy
/ ˈfɑːsɪ /
noun
- vet science a form of glanders in which lymph vessels near the skin become thickened, with skin lesions and abscess-forming nodules, caused by a bacterium, Burkholderia mallei
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It is that in cattle which glanders and farcy are in the horse,—the breaking up of the constitution.
The lymphatics become indurated and nodular, constituting what veterinarians call farcy pipes and farcy buds.
Farcy, a disease to which horses are subject, still sometimes miscalled Fashions by country farriers.
Or a nostrum that shall be sure work on a horse with a farcy?
Farcy is but one stage of this terrible disease, but is not necessarily fatal while in this stage.
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