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braxy
braxy, n. and a. Sc. (ˈbræksɪ) Forms: see below. [Etymology and even form uncertain: Jamieson has the forms braik (sing.), bracks (pl.), braxes (pl.), and braxit, as well as braxy. Either the latter is orig. an adj. brax-y, formed from a collective pl. bracks, brax (cf. peasy, poxy), or it is an err...
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Braxy
Braxy generally occurs in winter, when sheep eat frosted root crops, or frosted grass. Historically, the mutton of affected sheep was also referred to as braxy.
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John Russell Greig
He is noted for the development of several important animal vaccines: Enzootic abortion in ewes; Braxy and Louping ill.
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breakshuach
ˈbreakshuach Sc. Also breakshugh, breckshaw. [Derivation and correct form of second element unknown: it cannot be connected with OE. bræc-séoc epileptic.] The dysentery in sheep.1799 Ess. Highl. Soc. III. 411 (Jam.) Dysentery or Braxy, Breckshaw. c 1817 Hogg Tales & Sk. IV. 199 There is a disease am...
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David James Hamilton
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Hamilton investigated the diseases of sheep braxy and louping ill and was chairman of the departmental committee on this question appointed by the He confirmed the description of the braxy microbe given in 1888 by Ivar Nielsen and discovered the bacillus of louping ill.
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Moredun Research Institute
In the 1920s Louping Ill and Braxy claimed almost a third of the lambs born in Scotland and Grass Sickness was having a devastating effect on horses, which Within ten years of the Research Institute opening, Moredun scientists had discovered the cause and developed vaccines and treatment strategies for Braxy
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traik
▪ I. traik, n. Sc. (trek) Also 6 traike, 8 trake. [traik n. and v. appear together in Sc. soon after 1500. Origin uncertain; with sense 1 cf. Sw. tråk ‘troublesome task, painfulness, tiresomeness’, tråkig adj., tiresome, troublesome, wearisome, and the vb. mentioned under traik v. It is not clear th...
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Clostridium septicum
Other animals
In sheep, C. septicum causes a disease known as braxy; affected animals are generally found dead.
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gam
▪ I. gam, n.1 Sc. (gam) [Perh. onomatopœic. Cf. gamp v. The formation may have been partly suggested by some of the many words with initial ga- that refer to prominent or ugly teeth; cf. gabbed, gag-tooth, gang-tooth, gap-tooth, gat-tooth, etc. An adj. ‘gam, overlapping and twisted, applied only to ...
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List of infectious sheep and goat diseases
caprina (goatpox)
variola ovina (sheeppox)
Wesselsbron virus infection
Bacterial diseases
Diseases caused by bacteria include:
anaplasmosis
blackleg
braxy
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break-
break- The verb-stem in composition forming ns. or adjs. I. With verb + object. 1. Forming ns., as break-bones, the Ossifrage or Osprey; break-bulk, one who breaks bulk, a captain that abstracts part of his cargo; break-circuit, a device for opening and closing an electric circuit; break-club (Golf)...
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sickness
sickness (ˈsɪknɪs) Forms: see sick a. Also 1 -nysse, 4–5 -nys, -nis; 3–6 -nesse, 3–7 -nes, 5 Sc. -nace. [f. sick a. + -ness. Cf. obs. Flem. siecktenisse (Kilian).] 1. a. The state of being sick or ill; the condition of suffering from some malady; illness, ill-health.α c 967 Canons Edgar §36 We lærað...
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Avondale Agricultural Research Station
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A Braxy-like disease originated in the Beverley-York region in 1915.
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corne
▪ I. corn, n.1 (kɔːn) Also 3 coren, 4 korn(e, 4–7 corne, 5 (9 dial.) coorn; Sc. curn. [Common Teut.: OE. corn corresponds to OFris. korn (E.Fris. kôrn, kôren), OS. corn (MDu. coorn, coren, Du. koren), OHG. chorn, choron (MHG. korn, koren, mod.G. korn), ON. (Sw., Da.) korn, Gothic kaurn n.:—OTeut. *k...
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