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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 (Aphthovirus vesiculae) and is marked by ulcerating vesicles (see vesicle sense 1b) 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 (Enterovirus alphacoxsackie and especially serotypes coxsackievirus A16 and enterovirus A71) 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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