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Hog Cholera

Definition: Hog Cholera

Hog Cholera

Noun

1. Highly infectious virus disease of swine.

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


Specialty Definitions: Hog Cholera

DomainDefinitions

Food & Agriculture

A highly infectious and contagious disease of pigs, caused by a Pestivirus(a member of the Togavirus family)and characterized in its classical form by high fever, lassitude, purple discoloration of abdominal skin, conjunctivitis and nervous signs including circling, incoordination, tremor and convulsions; most affected pigs die at five to seven days with a characteristic petechiation under the kidney capsule(turkey egg kidney). There is a second form, characterized by nervous signs and caused by a strain of virus of lower virulence. Source: European Union. (references)

Health

An acute, highly contagious disease affecting swine of all ages and caused by the hog cholera virus. It has a sudden onset with high morbidity and mortality. (references)

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Crosswords: Hog Cholera

Specialty definitions using "hog cholera": Hog Cholera VirusPestivirus. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Hog Cholera

DomainTitle

Books

  • Eradication of hog cholera and African swine fever : report of the FAO/EEC Expert Consultation, held in Hanover, Federal Republic of Germany, 8-10 September, 1976 (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Expression: Hog Cholera

Expression using "hog cholera": Hog Cholera Virus. Additional references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hog Cholera

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  hog cholera

4
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Modern Translations: Hog Cholera

Language Translations for "hog cholera"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

svinepest (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), klassisk svinepest (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), europaeisk svinepest (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

klassieke varkenspest (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sikarutto (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague). (various references)

   

French

  

peste porcine classique, peste porcine. (various references)

   

German

  

Schweinepest (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πανώλης των χοίρων (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

sertésvész. (various references)

   

Italian

  

PSC (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), peste suina classica (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), peste suina (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), colera dei suini (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oghay olerachay

   

Portuguese

  

pneumo-enterite dos porcos (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), peste suína clássica (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), peste suína (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, purple, swine fever, swine plague), peste porcina (classical swine fever, hogback, hogging, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), arquear (arc, arch, bow, camber, cove, hooka, hoop, humpback, knob, to band, to hoop, to shrink, uplift). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чума свиней (hogget cholera). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

svinjska kolera (hogget cholera). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

peste porcina clásica (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), peste porcina (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague), colera porcino (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

klassisk svinpest (classical swine fever, pig typhoid, swine fever, swine plague). (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hog Cholera

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

pestis suum classica. (various references)

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Anagrams: Hog Cholera

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-h-h-l-o-o-r"

-3 letters: cholera, chorale, choreal.

-4 letters: ahchoo, chaleh, charge, choler, choral, chorea, coaler, cooler, galore, gaoler, gherao, gooral, hoorah, ochrea, orache, oracle, recoal.

-5 letters: achoo, algor, argle, argol, cager, cargo, carle, carol, ceorl, chare, chela, cholo, chore, claro, clear, cohog, colog, color, cooer, coral, gerah, glace, glare, goral, grace, haler, haole, hooch, horah, horal, lacer.

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Alternative Orthography: Hog Cholera


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

48 6F 67      43 68 6F 6C 65 72 61

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

    

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

01001000 01101111 01100111 00100000 01000011 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100101 01110010 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#103 &#32 &#67 &#104 &#111 &#108 &#101 &#114 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 0067      0043 0068 006F 006C 0065 0072 0061

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

428173237748178718467

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INDEX

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


  

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