hand, foot, and mouth disease

British  

noun

1.  HFMD.  a usually mild disease, mainly affecting children under seven, in which the sufferers develop mouth ulcers accompanied by blisters or rashes on their hands and feet. Caused by the Coxsackie virus A16, it has no known cure

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hand, foot, and mouth disease

Illnesses including small outbreaks of chicken pox and hand foot and mouth disease have spread through some Chicago shelters where people sleep on cots close to each other.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

Darling says that when her son got hand, foot and mouth disease, a common childhood virus that’s generally mild, it took him two years to fully recover.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 26, 2022

There was also an outbreak of hand, foot, and mouth disease yesterday at day care, and I am scared they will get it.

From Slate ● Jul. 25, 2019

Over the summer, pitcher Noah Syndergaard received a diagnosis of hand, foot and mouth disease.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2019

Happ after the newly acquired left-hander contracted a mild case of hand, foot and mouth disease, general manager Brian Cashman said.

From Reuters ● Jul. 31, 2018