fowl cholera


nounVeterinary Pathology.
  1. a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.

Origin of fowl cholera

1
First recorded in 1880–85

Words Nearby fowl cholera

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How to use fowl cholera in a sentence

  • This he also proved to be caused by a minute form of life, and that fowl cholera is due to still another form of micro-organism.

  • The central nervous system was to the virus of rabies what the test-tube was to the virus of fowl-cholera or anthrax.

    Experiments on Animals | Stephen Paget
  • Thus, then, as in fowl cholera, attenuated cultures of the microbe can be obtained.

    Louis Pasteur | Ren Vallery-Radot
  • We have seen how the facts have been established with regard to the microbe of fowl cholera.

    Louis Pasteur | Ren Vallery-Radot
  • Between this microbe and the microbe of fowl cholera there exists an essential difference.

    Louis Pasteur | Ren Vallery-Radot

British Dictionary definitions for fowl cholera

fowl cholera

noun
  1. vet science a contagious disease of poultry and other fowl, usually resulting in sudden death; caused by the organism Pasteurella multocida

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