Synonyms and antonyms of Diseases affecting animals in British Thesaurus

anthrax (noun)

a very serious illness affecting cows and sheep and sometimes people. Anthrax is sometimes used in biological warfare.

BSE (noun)

bovine spongiform encephalopathy: a serious disease in cows that affects the nervous system and causes death. Meat from cows that have BSE is believed to cause CJD in humans.

canker (noun)

a disease that causes painful infected areas in the ears of cats and dogs

distemper (noun)

a serious infectious disease that affects animals, especially dogs

foot-and-mouth disease (noun)

a very infectious disease of sheep, cows, and pigs

mange (noun)

a disease affecting animals in which their skin becomes itchy and they start to lose fur

mastitis (noun)

a similar illness affecting an animal’s udder

myxomatosis (noun)

a serious disease that kills rabbits and that was introduced artificially in the past to keep the number of wild rabbits low

rabies (noun)

a very serious disease that makes an animal or a human feel crazy. Humans get it only if they are bitten by an animal with rabies.

scrapie (noun)

a serious disease affecting sheep and goats that causes them to lose muscle control

Weil’s disease (noun)

a disease affecting animals and sometimes humans, caused by bacteria that are passed through the urine of an infected animal