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Lungworm
parasitic nematoid worms which infest the lungs and air passages of cattle sheep and other animals often proving fatal The lungworm of cattle Strongylus micrurus and that of sheep Strongylus filaria are the best known
Louping
An enzooumltic often fatal disease of sheep and other domestic animals of unknown cause It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms
Lord Campbell's Act
Baron John Campbell (1779-1861), Scottish-born British jurist who played an instrumental role in the passage of the 1846 Fatal Accidents Act, which formed the basis for such laws] : a statute setting out the remedy available for
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Basilisk
that its hissing would drive away all other serpents and that its breath and even its look was fatal See Cockatrice
Black vomit
A copious vomiting of dark colored matter or the substance so discharged one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever
Bubonic plague
a severe and often fatal disease caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis formerly Pasteurella pestis transmitted to man by the bite
Caisson disease
pressure environment too rapidly for the excess dissolved gases to be released through normal breathing It may be fatal but can be reversed or alleviated by returning the affected person to a high air pressure and then
Caribe
genus Serrasalmo of many species remarkable for its voracity When numerous they attack man or beast often with fatal results
Coelignurus
larval stage of a tapeworm Taelignia coelignurus which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep causing the fatal disease known as water brain vertigo staggers or gid
Curare
several species of Strychnos Strychnos toxifera etc It sometimes has little effect when taken internally but is quickly fatal when introduced into the blood and used by the Indians as an arrow poison
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