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an infectious respiratory and sometimes gastrointestinal disease of dogs, caused by a paramyxovirus and characterized by fever, dullness, loss of appetite, and a discharge from the eyes and nose. It is caused by a virus and it is also infectious for foxes and ferrets. Called also hard pad disease.Medical dictionary. 2011.
Canine distemper — virus Virus classification Group: Group V (( )ssRNA) Order: Mononegavirales Family: Par … Wikipedia
canine distemper — Vet. Pathol. distemper1 (def. 1a). * * * ▪ pathology an acute, highly contagious, disease affecting dogs, foxes, wolves, mink, raccoons, and ferrets. It is caused by a paramyxovirus that is closely related to the viruses causing measles in… … Universalium
canine distemper vaccine — a modified live virus vaccine consisting of an attenuated strain of canine distemper virus propagated in tissue culture, used for immunization of dogs against canine distemper … Medical dictionary
canine distemper virus — a virus of the genus Morbillivirus that causes canine distemper … Medical dictionary
canine distemper — ca′nine distem′per n. vet distemper I, 1), a) … From formal English to slang
canine distemper — noun a viral disease of young dogs characterized by high fever and respiratory inflammation • Hypernyms: ↑distemper … Useful english dictionary
canine distemper — /ˈkeɪnaɪn dɪstɛmpə/ (say kaynuyn distempuh) noun a highly contagious disease of carnivores caused by a paramyxovirus …
Distemper — may refer to: A viral infection Canine distemper, a disease of dogs Feline distemper, a disease of cats Phocine distemper, a disease of seals A bacterial infection Equine distemper, or Strangles, a bacterial infection of the horse Derangement or… … Wikipedia
distemper — distemper1 distemperedly, adv. distemperedness, n. /dis tem peuhr/, n. 1. Vet. Pathol. a. Also called canine distemper. an infectious disease chiefly of young dogs, caused by an unidentified virus and characterized by lethargy, fever, catarrh,… … Universalium
distemper — dis·tem·per dis tem pər n a disordered or abnormal bodily state esp. of quadruped mammals: as a) a highly contagious virus disease esp. of dogs that is marked by fever, leukopenia, and respiratory, gastrointestinal, and neurological symptoms and… … Medical dictionary
