Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A disease of horses, affecting chiefly the genitals and hind legs, thought to be due to the presence of a protozoan parasite, Trypanosoma equiperdum.
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Examples
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But it is more likely that they get their own form of the disease known as dourine which is not spread by the tsetse fly, but by other flies.
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It may be remarked in passing that its discovery had another incidental practical lesson of enormous value, and that was that it paved the way for the identification of a whole class of animal parasites causing infectious diseases, which already includes the organisms of Texas fever in cattle, dourine in horses, the _tsetse_ fly disease, the dreaded sleeping sickness, and finally such world-renowned plagues as syphilis and perhaps smallpox.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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Of the representatives of this group, causing disease in animals, are the trypanosomes, which are the causative factors of dourine and surra, and the piroplasma, which induce Texas fever in cattle and malaria or biliary fever of horses.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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_Maladie de coït_, or dourine, description and treatment, 562
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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_ -- There are many variations in the symptoms of dourine, and this is particularly true of the disease as it occurs in this country.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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When the eruption is in the neighborhood of the genital organs the disease has been mistaken for dourine.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Similar eruptions, but distributed less generally, about the size of a silver dollar, may occur as a symptom of dourine, or colt distemper.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Although a case of dourine may now and then recover, as a rule the disease is present in the latent stage.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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Crithidia, multiply freely, and pass ultimately to the mouthparts or salivary structures whence they may be inoculated into a new vertebrate host bitten by the invertebratehost, and that are responsible for various serious diseases (as Chagas 'disease, dourine, nagana, sleeping sickness, and surra) of humans and domestic animals
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Crithidia, multiply freely, and pass ultimately to the mouthparts or salivary structures whence they may be inoculated into a new vertebrate host bitten by the invertebratehost, and that are responsible for various serious diseases (as Chagas 'disease, dourine, nagana, sleeping sickness, and surra) of humans and domestic animals
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