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Milk Sickness

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Noun

1. milk sickness, trembles

disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot

2. milk sickness

caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles

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Milk Sickness

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noun
1. 
an acute disease characterized by weakness, vomiting, and constipation, caused by ingestion of the flesh or dairy products of cattle affected with trembles
2. veterinary science another name for trembles (sense 1)

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Milk Sickness

see synonyms of milk sickness
a rare disease, formerly common in the W U.S., caused by consuming dairy products or flesh from cattle that have eaten any of various poisonous weeds

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Milk Sickness

see synonyms of 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.

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