krimpsiekte, noun

/ˈkrəmpsɪktə/, /ˈkrəmpsiktə/
Forms:
Also krimpsiek, krimpziekte.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, krimp shrink + siekte (earlier ziekte) disease; see quotation 1966.
1. Pathology. A disease affecting the muscular and nervous system of livestock and caused by the ingestion of any of a variety of poisonous plants; lêsiekte; nenta sense 2. Also attributive.
1893 Henning in D.G. Steyn Toxicology of Plants (1934) 347This stage..of Krimpziekte..endures a longer or shorted time depending upon the quantity of the klimop eaten, and the individual susceptibility to the poison.
1920 B. Van der Riet Letters. 29 Mar.The plant Cynanchum Africanum..is responsible for the condition known to some farmers as krimpziekte. There is another disease known as krimpziekte, or neto, affecting goats throughout the Karoo, but the cause of this is a Cotyleden (plakkies). The scientific name for the former is Cynanchosis, and for the latter Cotyledenesis.
1929 Handbk for Farmers (Dept of Agric. & Forestry) 208All our domestic animals are susceptible to krimpsiekte, but goats suffer chiefly as the krimpsiekte areas are mostly suitable for goat farming...Two forms of krimpsiekte, namely the acute or ‘opblaas’ krimpsiekte, and the chronic or ‘dun’ krimpsiekte, are encountered.
1932 Farming in S. Afr. Apr. 11 (Swart)The only reliable preventative remedy against ‘krimpsiekte’ is to eradicate the krimpsiektebossie.
1934 D.G. Steyn Toxicology of Plants 345‘Cotyledonosis’, which is also referred to by farmers as ‘nenta’, ‘krimpsiekte’, or ‘krampsiekte’.
1966 C.A. Smith Common Names 312Dogs eating meat from the carcasses of herbivores poisoned by the plant [Cotyledon wallichii] will also develop krimpsiekte symptoms. The vernacular name is derived from the peculiar arching of the back and bending of the neck to one side.., as if these conditions had been brought about by a shrinkage of the muscles.
1973 F.J. Veldman in Std Encycl. of Sn Afr. VIII. 607Several other plants produce symptoms resembling those of ‘krimpsiekte’, e.g. horse-tail grass..and kieseblaar...Even prussic acid poisoning is sometimes wrongly called ‘krimpsiekte’.
1988 Smuts & Alberts Forgotten Highway through Ceres & Bokkeveld 184Pruimkougoed (‘chewing tobacco’)..is..a good thing for sheep with krimpsiek.
1988 Le Roux & Schelpe Namaqualand 100Tylecodon paniculatus, This plant, though not often eaten by stock..,causes severe stomach cramps (‘krimpsiek’) and even death.
2. Used attributively in combinations designating some of the poisonous plants associated with this condition, as krimpsiektebos /-bɔs/ [Afrikaans bos bush], krimpsiektebossie [see -ie], krimpsiekte bush, krimpsiekte plant: (a) any of several poisonous plants of the Crassulaceae, including species of Tylecodon (or Cotyledon), especially Tylecodon cacaliodes, or of Kalanchoe, especially Kalanchoe brachyloba; (b) the poisonous plant Lessertia annularis of the Fabaceae. In both senses also called nenta (sense 1).
Note:
Various species of Cynanchum, especially Cynanchum africanum (see klimop sense 2), are also thought to be responsible for krimpsiekte but are not named ‘krimpsiektebos’.
1917 [see nenta sense 1].
1932 Farming in S. Afr. Apr. 11 (Swart)Krimpsiektebossie,..A poisonous herb the Lessertia annularis that causes the disease in cattle known as krimpsiekte characterised by symptoms indicating an affection of the muscular and nervous system.
1966 C.A. Smith Common Names 312Krimpsiektebos,..The vernacular name was assigned in more recent times to several species of Cotyledon and Kalanchoe, which are regarded as being the cause of krimpsiekte in stock.
1973 F.J. Veldman in Std Encycl. of Sn Afr. VIII. 607Cotyledon poisoning, (Afr. krimpsiekte). This disease (also known as nenta poisoning) is caused by several species of ‘krimpsiekte’-bush.
1991 Dict. of Horticulture (Dept of Nat. Educ.) 450Krimpsiektebos, (Tylecodon cacalioides) nenta.
A disease affecting the muscular and nervous system of livestock and caused by the ingestion of any of a variety of poisonous plants; lêsiekte; nenta sense 2. Also attributive.
any of several poisonous plants of the Crassulaceae, including species of Tylecodon (or Cotyledon), especially Tylecodon cacaliodes, or of Kalanchoe, especially Kalanchoe brachyloba;
the poisonous plant Lessertia annularis of the Fabaceae. In both senses also called nenta (sense 1).
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