milk sickness

milk sickness

n.

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.

Thesaurus

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