Synonyms of shipping fever

Noun


1. shipping fever, shipping pneumonia, animal disease, blood poisoning, septicemia, septicaemia

usage: a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market)

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