hardware disease

noun

Etymology

From the fact that in cattle it is usually caused by hardware such as a piece of wire or a fastener (e.g., fence wire, nail, screw).

Definitions

  1. Traumatic gastrointestinal puncture and infection in ruminants (especially cattle) and…

    Traumatic gastrointestinal puncture and infection in ruminants (especially cattle) and birds that ingest a sharp object (in livestock usually a metal object such as wire or a fastener); in cattle it usually includes reticuloperitonitis and thus in practice is usually metonymically synonymous with traumatic reticuloperitonitis.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hardware disease. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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