lungsickness en · NOUN
Etymology
From lung + sickness.
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable) A contagious bovine pneumonia caused by Mycoplasma mycoides.
Lungsickness is still bad at the farm Coleford; 22 heade of cattle have died up to date.
1901, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 2, page 68: