hardware disease (English, noun)
expansion: hardware disease (uncountable)
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topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
qualifier: animal husbandry
glosses: Traumatic gastrointestinal puncture and infection in ruminants (especially cattle) and birds that ingest a sharp object (in livestock usually a metal object such as wire or a fastener); in cattle it usually includes reticuloperitonitis and thus in practice is usually metonymically synonymous with traumatic reticuloperitonitis.
tags: uncountable
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