milk fever

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milk fever

1. A mild fever, usually occurring at the beginning of lactation, associated with infection following childbirth.

2. A disease affecting dairy cows and occasionally sheep or goats, especially soon after giving birth.

milk fever

1. (Medicine / Gynaecology & Obstetrics) a fever that sometimes occurs shortly after childbirth, once thought to result from engorgement of the breasts with milk but now thought to be caused by infection

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) Also called parturient fever, eclampsia Vet science a disease of cows, goats, etc., occurring shortly after parturition, characterized by low blood calcium levels, paralysis, and loss of consciousness

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