milk sickness

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milk sickness

1. An acute, now rare disease characterized by trembling, vomiting, and severe intestinal pain that affects individuals who eat dairy products or meat from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot.

2. See tremble.

milk sickness

1. (Medicine / Pathology) an acute disease characterized by weakness, vomiting, and constipation, caused by ingestion of the flesh or dairy products of cattle affected with trembles

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Veterinary Science) Vet science another name for trembles [1]

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Noun	1.	milk sickness - disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot trembles animal disease - a disease that typically does not affect human beings
	2.	milk sickness - caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles disease - an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

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