Strangles

2 definitions found

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

  Strangles \Stran"gles\, n.
     A disease in horses and swine, in which the upper part of the
     throat, or groups of lymphatic glands elsewhere, swells.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  strangles
       n : an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by
           inflammation of the mucous membranes [syn: {equine
           distemper}]