| chicken anaemia virus | The type species of circovirus, a small, non-enveloped DNA virus originally isolated from contaminated vaccines in japan. It causes chicken infectious anaemia and may possibly play a key role in haemorrhagic anaemia syndrome, anaemia dermatitis, and blue wing disease. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| chicken breast | Pigeon-breasted. (12 Dec 1998) |
| chicken embryo lethal orphan virus | <virology> A virus with characteristics of adenovirus, and similar to quail bronchitis virus. Synonym: chicken embryo lethal orphan virus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| chicken fat clot | Clot formed in vitro or postmortem from leukocytes and plasma of sedimented blood. (05 Mar 2000) |
| water chicken | <zoology> The common American gallinule. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| water pox | varicella Previous: water pollutants, radioactive, water pore, waterpot, water potentialNext: water pox, water purification, water purslane, water qualmwater pox <medicine> A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| plum pox virus | A species of the genus potyvirus that affects many species of prunus. It is transmitted by aphids and by infected rootstocks. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pox | <medicine> Strictly, a disease by pustules or eruptions of any kind, but chiefly or wholly restricted to three or four diseases, the smallpox, the chicken pox, and the vaccine and the venereal diseases. Pox, when used without an epithet, as in imprecations, formerly signified smallpox; but it now signifies syphilis. Origin: For pocks, OE. Pokkes. See Pock. It is plural in form but is used as a singular. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sheep-pox | A highly contagious disease of sheep, chiefly in parts of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and southern Europe, caused by the sheep-pox virus, a member of the family Poxviridae. Synonym: ovinia. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sheep-pox virus | A poxvirus of the genus Capripoxvirus causing sheep-pox. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Kaffir pox | A mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent strain of the virus. Synonym: Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milkpox, pseudosmallpox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, whitepox. Origin: Pg. Alastrar, to scatter over (05 Mar 2000) |