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milk sickness

DEFINITIONS OF: milk sickness

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n disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot

Synonyms:
trembles
Type of:
animal disease
a disease that typically does not affect human beings

n caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles

Type of:
disease
an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning
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