farcy

American  

[fahr-see] / ˈfɑr si /

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

• farcies
  plural

1. a form of glanders chiefly affecting the skin and superficial lymphatic vessels of horses and mules.

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farcy British  

/ ˈfɑːsɪ /

noun

1. vet science a form of glanders in which lymph vessels near the skin become thickened, with skin lesions and abscess-forming nodules, caused by a bacterium, Burkholderia mallei

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• farcies
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of farcy

1375–1425; late Middle English farsy ( n ) < Anglo-French, Middle French farcin < Late Latin farcīminum glandular disease ( Latin farcī ( re ) to stuff + Late Latin -minum for Latin -men noun suffix)

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Example Sentences

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The ulcerated lesions of farcy have to be distinguished from those of tubercle, syphilis, and other forms of infective granuloma.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

The lymphatics become indurated and nodular, constituting what veterinarians call farcy pipes and farcy buds.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson

In acute cutaneous glanders or farcy, premonitory symptoms resemble those of ordinary acute glanders, which indeed is usually present as well, and always supervenes before farcy terminates in death.

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

Chronic cutaneous glanders, chronic farcy, usually begins by a local swelling, mostly of the fetlock, in the midst of which a careful examination detects a small glanderous nodule.

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

When greasy heels are complicated by lymphangitis we have a condition very much resembling that of farcy.

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

There's for your truffes farcies; there's for your gelinottes, and your 'chateaux' at fifteen shillings a glass!

From The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 by A. W. (Arthur Woollgar) Verrall

She insisted upon drinking Veuve Clicquot every day for dinner, and upon ordering large quantities of olives farcies and pâté de foie gras, to which delicacies she was inordinately attached.

From Strange Stories by Grant Allen

Then comes 'poisson'—I fear it may be whiting—filet de boeuf with tomates farcies, bouchées à la Reine, chicken, pigeons, salad, two vegetables, an ice, assorted fruits, and biscuits.

From A Chair on the Boulevard by Leonard Merrick

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