Mange

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mange \Mange\, n. [See {Mangy}.] (Vet.)
     The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Mange insect} (Zool.), any one of several species of small
        parasitic mites, which burrow in the skin of cattle.


        horses, dogs, and other animals, causing the mange. The
        mange insect of the horse ({Psoroptes equi} or
        {Dermatodectes equi}), and that of cattle ({Symbiotes
        bovis} or {Dermatophagys bovis}) are the most important
        species. See {Acarina}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mange
       n : a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing
           inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects
           domestic animals (and sometimes people)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "mange":
     Texas fever, anthrax, aphthous fever, bighead, black quarter,
     blackleg, blackwater, blind staggers, bloody flux, broken wind,
     cattle plague, charbon, distemper, foot-and-mouth disease, gapes,
     glanders, heaves, hog cholera, hoof-and-mouth disease, hydrophobia,
     liver rot, loco, loco disease, locoism, mad staggers,
     malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule,
     megrims, milzbrand, paratuberculosis, pip, pseudotuberculosis,
     quarter evil, rabies, rinderpest, rot, scabies, sheep rot,
     splenic fever, staggers, stringhalt, swine dysentery