Marek's disease

[ mar-iks, mahr- ]

nounVeterinary Pathology.
  1. 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

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After Hungarian veterinarian József Marek (1868–1952), who described it in 1907

Words Nearby Marek's disease

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