looping ill

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   an acute viral disease of the nervous system in sheep; can be transmitted by Ixodes ricinus

   Broaderanimal disease

Questions about looping ill

What does looping ill mean?

looping ill means "an acute viral disease of the nervous system in sheep; can be transmitted by Ixodes ricinus".

Is looping ill a common word?

looping ill 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.