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Bang's disease

Bang's disease

7.2
A disease of farm animals, especially cows, that often causes abortion and can infect people, also called brucellosis
  • noun
  • /bæŋz dɪˈziːz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : enfermedad de Bang
  • The veterinarian diagnosed the cow with Bang's disease after noticing several spontaneous abortions in the herd.

Examples

  • Control measures for Bang's disease include regular testing and vaccination of livestock.

  • Because Bang's disease can be transmitted to humans, proper precautions must be taken when handling infected animals.

  • Farmers are concerned about Bang's disease affecting their herds.

  • Many cattle owners are familiar with Bang's disease.

  • The veterinarian diagnosed the cow with Bang's disease after noticing several spontaneous abortions in the herd.

  • Control measures for Bang's disease include regular testing and vaccination of livestock.

  • Because Bang's disease can be transmitted to humans, proper precautions must be taken when handling infected animals.

Synonyms

brucellosis
vsBang's disease
  • Specialized
2 8.2

A disease caused by bacteria that animals have and people can catch, causing fever

is the traditional common name for that same infection causing animal abortion
contagious abortion
vsBang's disease
  • Specialized
8.8

An illness that spreads among farm animals and makes pregnant animals lose their unborn young and can infect people

is the term that focuses on abortion outcomes rather than identifying the bacterial cause

Surface Forms

Bang's disease singular
Bang's diseases plural

Morphology

Bang's + disease

The form is simply a proper-name eponym plus 'disease', so a B1 learner who knows 'disease' can infer it refers to some illness associated with the name Bang. However they cannot derive the specific sense (that it is brucellosis, an infectious cattle disease transmissible to humans) from the constituents alone; eponymous disease names are cross-linguistically common but semantically specialized, giving only partial predictability.

Etymology

Bang's disease is named after a Danish vet, Bernhard Bang, who found a sickness in cows that often made them lose their calves. That's why Bang's disease now means the infectious illness called 'brucellosis' that can pass from animals to humans.