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TAKE THE QUIZ“mouth disease”
The following 3 entries include the term mouth disease.
foot-and-mouth disease
noun: an acute contagious febrile disease especially of cloven-footed animals that is caused by serotypes of a picornavirus (species Foot-and-mouth disease virus of the genus Aphthovirus) and is marked by ulcerating vesicles in the mouth, about the hooves, and on the udder and teats compare hand, foot and mouth disease
hand, foot and mouth disease
noun: a usually mild contagious disease especially of young children that is caused by an enterovirus (species Human enterovirus A, especially serotype Human coxsackievirus A16) and is characterized by vesicular lesions chiefly in the mouth and on the hands and feet compare foot-and-mouth disease
hoof-and-mouth disease
noun
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