encephalomyocarditis
noun
en·ceph·a·lo·myo·car·di·tis
in-ˌse-fə-lō-ˌmī-ə-kär-ˈdī-təs
: an acute febrile disease especially of swine and some nonhuman primates caused by a picornavirus (species Encephalomyocarditis virus of the genus Cardiovirus) and marked by degeneration and inflammation of skeletal and cardiac muscle and lesions of the central nervous system
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