lungsickness
English
Noun
lungsickness (uncountable)
- (archaic, medicine) A contagious bovine pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma mycoides.
- Synonyms: contagious bovine pleuropneumonia, CBPP
- 1901, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 2, page 68:
- Lungsickness is still bad at the farm Coleford; 22 heade of cattle have died up to date.