fistulous withers

1. 1.

   a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse

   Synonymsfistula

   Broaderanimal disease

Questions about fistulous withers

What does fistulous withers mean?

fistulous withers means "a chronic inflammation of the withers of a horse".

What is another word for fistulous withers?

Close synonyms include fistula. 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 fistulous withers a common word?

fistulous withers 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.