foot-and-mouth disease

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An acute, highly contagious degenerative viral disease of cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals, characterized by fever and the eruption of vesicles around the mouth and hooves. It is usually not fatal.

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• noun pathology A highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.

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• noun acute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs