Black Disease

  

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Black Disease

Definition: Black Disease

Black Disease

Noun

1. A disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Black Disease

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

An acute, infectious disease of sheep, sometimes of cattle, and rarely of pigs and horses, caused by Costridium novyi Type B. The organism multiplies in areas of liver necrosis resulting from the migration of liver flukes, and it produces a powerful necrotizing toxin. Source: European Union. (references)

Medicine

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Black Disease

Synonyms: distomatosis (n), liver rot (n), sheep rot (n). (additional references)
Synonym by domain: inh (food & agriculture, biology & biotechnology).

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Crosswords: Black Disease

English words defined with "black disease": black knot, Black rustPellicularia filamentosa, potato fungusRhizoctinia solaniYellow fever. (references)
Specialty definitions using "black disease": black disease of sheep, Blainspébrine. (references)

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Expression: Black Disease

Expression using "black disease": black disease of sheep. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Black Disease

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Modern Translations: Black Disease

Language Translations for "black disease"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

black disease (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis), tysk bradsot (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis), infektioes nekrotiserende hepatitis (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

necrotiserende hepatitis (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tarttuva kuolioinen maksatulehdus (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis). (various references)

   

French

  

black disease (black disease of sheep), hépatite infectieuse nécrosante du mouton (black disease of sheep). (various references)

   

German

  

infektiöse Leberentzündung der Schafe (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis), deutscher Bradsot (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ηπατοξαιμία του προβάτου (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis). (various references)

   

Italian

  

black disease (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis), malattia nera (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis), infezione da Clostridium novyi o oedematiens (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis), epatite necrotica infettiva (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis), epatite necrotica degli ovini (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ackblay iseaseday

   

Portuguese

  

hepatite necrótica infecciosa dos ovinos (black disease of sheep, bradsot, braxy, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, Clostridium septicum enterotoxaemia, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis), doença negra dos ovinos (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

peste negra de los ovinos (black disease of sheep, Clostridium novyi or Clostridium oedematiens infection, infectious necrotic hepatitis, necrotic hepatitis). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Black Disease

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

hepatitis infectiosa necrotica. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Black Disease

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-d-e-e-i-k-l-s-s"

-2 letters: backslides, leasebacks.

-3 letters: backsides, backslide, escalades, kielbasas, lakesides, leaseback.

-4 letters: abscised, abseiled, alcaides, assailed, backless, backside, backslid, beadlike, beakless, bekissed, beladies, debacles, decibels, declasse, diabases, diebacks, disables, escalade, idealess, kielbasa, kissable, lakeside, scablike, scalades, seisable, sickbeds.

-5 letters: abelias, abscise, abseils, acedias, aediles, aidless, alcades, alcaide, aliases, alsikes, asslike, bailees, balases, baldies, beadles, bedecks, bedless.

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Alternative Orthography: Black Disease


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 6C 61 63 6B      44 69 73 65 61 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101100 01100001 01100011 01101011 00100000 01000100 01101001 01110011 01100101 01100001 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#99 &#107 &#32 &#68 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#97 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 0063 006B      0044 0069 0073 0065 0061 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3678676977238758571678571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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