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bluecomb en · NOUN

Etymology

From blue + comb.

Meanings

  1. (neologism, uncountable) Coronaviral enteritis in turkeys.
    • "Blue comb disease" affected turkeys of all ages. In the authors' experience, mortality was 25-50% in young poults and 5-25% in "range" turkeys. [1954, B. S. Pomeroy, “Bluecomb disease of turkeys.”, in Proceedings 90th Annu. Meet. Amer. vet. med. Ass., page 321:
    • The highly contagious disease bluecomb, also called transmissible enteritis and mud fever, affects the intestinal tract of turkeys of all ages, including breeding stock. 1971, Agriculture Handbook, number 393, page 60:
    • Particles morphologically similar to coronaviruses were found in bluecomb-infected turkey ceca, the bursa of Fabricius, and embryo intestines, but not in the same tissues of uninfected controls. 1973, AE Ritchie, “Electron microscopy of coronavirus-like particles characteristic of turkey bluecomb disease”, in Avian Diseases, volume 17, number 3, page 546:

Synonyms

mud fever