summer sores

plural noun

1. vet science a condition of horses in which itchy lesions are caused by infestation of wounds with Habronema larvae from flies

Example Sentences

In view of this it may be surmised that summer sores may arise as the result of flies so infested feeding on the moisture on the skin of the horse.

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In some forms of summer sores along the abdomen there are found immature stages of Habronema which apparently have just escaped from the egg and which are younger than some of the stages found in the fly.

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Descazeaux calls these summer sores cutaneous habronemiasis.

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Their presence is not likely to be diagnosed in the present state of our knowledge, but in case their presence is determined or suspected in connection with the summer sores noted later, tartar emetic is recommended.

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Apparently it is the young forms of these stomach worms which develop at times on the skin, causing a cutaneous habronemiasis known as summer sores.

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