FOWL CHOLERA

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acute diarrheal disease (especially of chickens) caused by the microorganism that causes hemorrhagic septicemia

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("fowl cholera" is a kind of...):

blood poisoning; septicaemia; septicemia (invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection)

animal disease (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

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