gallamsiekte, noun
- Forms:
- Also gal-lamziekte, and with initial capital.
- Origin:
- Afrikaans, South African DutchShow more Afrikaans (earlier South African Dutch gal-lamziekte), gal bile, gall + lamsiekte, see lamsiekte.
Pathology
lamsiekte.
- Note:
- Formerly applied when the symptoms of lamsiekte included splenic fever; however ‘lamsiekte’ and ‘gallamsiekte’ now usually to refer to the same disease.
[1911 J.F. Pentz in Farmer’s Weekly 11 Oct. 158In treating lam-galziekte, we must not forget that there is no one living to-day who can tell you the real cause or seat of the disease, so as soon as cattle get sick it is put down as a case of lam-gal-ziekte...It is very clear that no cattle can be ‘salted’ for lam-gall-ziekte.]
1979 T. Gutsche There Was a Man 265The increasing ravages of Gal-Lamziekte among the cattle of Bechuanaland.
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