equine distemper

1. 1.

   an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes

   Synonymsstrangles

   Broaderdistemper

Questions about equine distemper

What does equine distemper mean?

equine distemper means "an acute bacterial disease of horses characterized by inflammation of the mucous membranes".

What is another word for equine distemper?

Close synonyms include strangles. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is equine distemper a common word?

equine distemper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.