fowl cholera
a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
Origin of fowl cholera
1- Compare hemorrhagic septicemia.
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.
Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century | Charles MorrisThe 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 PagetThus, then, as in fowl cholera, attenuated cultures of the microbe can be obtained.
Louis Pasteur | Ren Vallery-RadotWe have seen how the facts have been established with regard to the microbe of fowl cholera.
Louis Pasteur | Ren Vallery-RadotBetween this microbe and the microbe of fowl cholera there exists an essential difference.
Louis Pasteur | Ren Vallery-Radot
British Dictionary definitions for fowl cholera
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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