catarrhal fever

American  

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

1. bluetongue.

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Etymology

Origin of catarrhal fever

First recorded in 1780–90

Example Sentences

Into Walter Reed Hospital, reportedly with heart trouble, went Multimillionaire Major Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. Out of the Philadelphia Naval Hospital after a bout with catarrhal fever came Lieut.

From Time Magazine Archive

Piratical Captain Dover once described a vague malaise that sailors often get as acute catarrhal fever.

From Time Magazine Archive

Biermer found a temperature of over 39° C. in moderate cases of catarrhal fever, and does not doubt that under certain transient conditions the temperature may reach the height of that of pneumonia or typhus.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Such local epidemics are without doubt due to local causes, and are of the nature of simple ordinary catarrhal fever, rather than true influenza.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Synonyms.—Distemper; colt-ill; catarrhal fever; one form of shipping fever; febris pyogenica.

From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Michener, Charles B.