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mange

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mange  (mnj)
n.
Any of several chronic skin diseases of mammals caused by parasitic mites and characterized by skin lesions, itching, and loss of hair.
[Middle English manjeue, from Old French manjue, from mangier, to eat; see manger.]
mange [meɪndʒ]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) an infectious disorder mainly affecting domestic animals, characterized by itching, formation of papules and vesicles, and loss of hair: caused by parasitic mites
[from Old French mangeue itch, literally: eating, from mangier to eat]
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Noun1.mange - a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hairmange - a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people)
animal disease - a disease that typically does not affect human beings
Translations
mange [meɪndʒ] N → sarna f
mange
n → Räude f; (of man) → Krätze f
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It was almost a sufficient motive, not only to make me take off what would be called by pig- drovers the mange, but the skin itself.
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The elder brother having thus managed me, his next business was to manage his mother, and he never left till he had brought her to acquiesce and be passive in the thing, even without acquainting the father, other than by post letters; so that she consented to our marrying privately, and leaving her to mange the father afterwards.
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