blackleg

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Main Entry: black·leg
Pronunciation: blak-leg, -lg
Function: noun
: an enzootic usually fatal toxemia especially of young cattle caused by toxins produced by an anaerobic soil bacterium of the genus Clostridium (C. chauvoei synonym C. feseri) -- called also black quarter, quarter evil, quarter ill, symptomatic anthrax -- compare BLACK DISEASE, MALIGNANT EDEMA