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timber tongue
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synonyms: wooden tongue, Actinobacillosis ???
tags: [pathosis]
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Definition:a fatal bacterial disease in cattle where the tongue becomes hard and swollen such that they can no longer eat or drink.
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So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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