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has gloss | (noun) disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot trembles, milk sickness |
has gloss | eng: Milk sickness, also known as tremetol vomiting, or in animals as trembles, is 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. Although highly rare today, milk sickness claimed thousands of lives in the early 19th century. A notable victim was Abraham Lincolns mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Nursing calves and lambs may have died from their mothers milk contaminated with snakeroot even though the mother animals show no signs of poisoning. Cattle, horses, and sheep are the animals most often poisoned. |
lexicalization | eng: Milk Sickness |
lexicalization | eng: trembles |
subclass of | (noun) a disease that typically does not affect human beings animal disease |
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lexicalization | kor: 우유병 |
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similar | e/Milk sickness |
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