Crossword clues for mange
mange
- Animal disease
- Woofer's woe
- Something that might make the fur fly?
- Pug's complaint
- Pooch's problem
- Pet disorder
- Mutt's skin problem
- Mutt's mite malady
- Lab woe
- Lab irritant
- Lab coat ruiner?
- Lab coat ruiner
- Itchy pooch ailment
- Itchy dog's problem, sometimes
- Fido's woe
- Dog's skin problem
- Dog's skin disease
- Dog's itchiness
- Dog's ailment
- Dog woe
- Dog disease
- Disease of dogs
- Cur's woe
- Cur's malady
- Cur's curse
- Cause of fur loss, perhaps
- Cause of fur loss
- Dog's problem
- Skin disorder
- Canine woe
- Hair loss cause, perhaps
- An persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair
- Affects domestic animals (and sometimes people)
- A cause of baldness
- Canine disease
- Fido's ailment
- Skin problem
- Problem for Fido
- Canine problem
- Affliction causing loss of hair
- Skin disease for a dog
- Affliction affecting Fido
- Liverpool striker nursing the onset of gum disease
- Roman general contracted disease
- Dog bane
- Dog's bane
- Canine complaint
- Mutt's malady
- Itchy canine ailment
- Dog's woe
- Canine ailment caused by mites
- Disorder causing loss of fur
- Bad lab test result?
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mange \Mange\, n. [See Mangy.] (Vet.) The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.
Mange insect (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of small parasitic mites, which burrow in the skin of cattle. horses, dogs, and other animals, causing the mange. The mange insect of the horse ( Psoroptes equi or Dermatodectes equi), and that of cattle ( Symbiotes bovis or Dermatophagys bovis) are the most important species. See Acarina.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"skin disease of animals," early 15c., from Old French manjue "the itch," also "hunger, appetite; itching, longing," literally "the eating," verbal noun from a collateral form of Old French mangier "to eat" (Modern French manger) "to eat," from Late Latin manducare "to chew, eat," from manducus "glutton," from Latin mandere "to chew" (see mandible).
Wiktionary
n. (context pathology English) A skin disease of mammals caused by parasitic mites.
WordNet
n. a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people)
Wikipedia
Mange is a class of skin diseases caused by parasitic mites. Since mites also infect plants, birds, and reptiles, the term "mange", suggesting poor condition of the hairy coat due to the infection, is sometimes reserved only for pathological mite-infestation of nonhuman mammals. Thus, mange includes mite-associated skin disease in domestic animals (cats and dogs), in livestock (such as sheep scab), and in wild animals (for example, coyotes, cougars, and bears). Since mites belong to the arachnid subclass Acari (also called Acarina), another term for mite infestation is acariasis.
Parasitic mites that cause mange in mammals embed themselves either in skin or hair follicles in the animal, depending upon their genus. Sarcoptes spp. burrow into skin, while Demodex spp. live in follicles.
In humans, these two types of mite infections, which would otherwise be known as "mange" in furry mammals, are instead known respectively as scabies and demodicosis.
Usage examples of "mange".
And parasitology, the teeming other world of the worms and fleas and mange mites.
Frontenac, after visiting the scene of the catastrophe a few weeks after it occurred, writes: "Ils (_les Iroquois_) avoient brusle plus de trois lieues de pays, saccage toutes les maisons jusqu'aux portes de la ville, enleve plus de six vingt personnes, tant hommes, femmes, qu'enfants, apres avoir massacre plus de deux cents dont ils avoient casse la teste aux uns, brusle, rosty, et mange les autres, ouvert le ventre des femmes grosses pour en arracher les enfants, et fait des cruautez inouies et sans exemple.
They looked like men, but vhen the monthter got clother, I thaw they were thpindly little runtth vith the mange and no notheth to thpeak of.
Furthermore, there was the danger of such diseases as coccidiosis, demodectic mange, bloat, and foot rot, not to mention birth defects such as sprung pasterns, pendulous udder, blind teat, leaking orifice, and hermaphroditism.
Monica and everyone else learned that the type of mange from which he suffered was called alopecia areata, and everywhere harmless, afflicted citizens wrote to the papers protesting that this ailment was not a mark of turpitude.
And three desserts, so everyone might have his choice, chocolate layer cake, vanilla blanc mange and pound cake topped with sweet whipped cream.
He stared warily around him at the Beggar Court, all manged and maimed, which had de posited itself about the filthy hall, mocking him.
Although resilient himselfhe could pretty well boast pan-immunitythe dog was boiling and bursting with whole ecologies of trapped viruses, germs, and microbes: anthrax, foul brood, rinderpest, staggers, scours, glanders, hard pad, sheep rot, and mange.