animal disease vs mad cow disease

mad cow disease vs animal disease

animal disease and mad cow disease both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
animal disease	Yes	No	No	No
mad cow disease	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mad cow disease is a hyponym of animal disease; that is, mad cow disease is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than animal disease:

animal disease: a disease that typically does not affect human beings
mad cow disease: a fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation

Other hyponyms of animal disease include warble, anaplasmosis, aspergillosis, brooder pneumonia, bighead, bovine spongiform encephalitis, BSE, bull nose, camelpox, canine chorea, chorea, catarrhal fever, chronic wasting disease, costiasis, cowpox, vaccinia, creeps, hemorrhagic septicemia, pasteurellosis, fistula, fistulous withers, fowl cholera, fowl pest, hog cholera, distemper, enterotoxemia, foot-and-mouth disease, hoof-and-mouth disease, foot rot, black disease, distomatosis, liver rot, sheep rot, broken wind, heaves, red water, rhinotracheitis, cattle plague, rinderpest, scours, scrapie, shipping fever, shipping pneumonia, spavin, loco disease, locoism, louping ill, mange, moon blindness, mooneye, murrain, myxomatosis, Newcastle disease, pip, parrot disease, psittacosis, bacillary white diarrhea, bacillary white diarrhoea, pullorum disease, gall, saddle sore, sand crack, blind staggers, staggers, sweating sickness, Texas fever, milk sickness, trembles, zoonosis, zoonotic disease.

animal disease (noun)	mad cow disease (noun)
a disease that typically does not affect human beings	a fatal disease of cattle that affects the central nervous system; causes staggering and agitation

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