Marek's disease
[ mar-iks, mahr- ]
nounVeterinary Pathology.
a contagious cancerous disease of poultry, caused by a herpesvirus and characterized by proliferation of lymphoid cells and paralysis of a limb or the neck.
Origin of Marek's disease
1After Hungarian veterinarian József Marek (1868–1952), who described it in 1907
- Also called fowl paralysis, range paralysis.
Words Nearby Marek's disease
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