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DISTOMATOSIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does distomatosis mean?
• DISTOMATOSIS (noun)
The noun DISTOMATOSIS has 1 sense:
1. a disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products
Familiarity information: DISTOMATOSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
black disease; distomatosis; liver rot; sheep rot
Hypernyms ("distomatosis" is a kind of...):
animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)
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