sponssiekte, noun
- Forms:
- Show more Also spongsiekte, spongsikte, sponse-ziekte, sponsiekte, spons-siekte, sponsziekte, spon zickte.
- Origin:
- South African Dutch, AfrikaansShow more South African Dutch, spons sponge + ziekte (later Afrikaans siekte) disease.
Pathology
A disease of livestock resulting in a high fever and spongy swellings in the muscles of one or more quarters.
- Note:
- In general English called ‘quarter evil’, this disease is caused by a bacillus.
1790 tr. of F. Le Vaillant’s Trav. II. 80The spong-sikte, a terrible scourge among horned cattle, and very alarming...It is a kind of leprosy, that may be communicated in an instant; and the flesh of such animals as are attacked by it, swells in an extraordinary manner, and grows spongy and livid.
1979 T. Gutsche There Was a Man 50Theiler abandoned the farrier project for an attack on ‘Sponsziekte’ or Black Quarter Evil, an historic cattle disease then prevalent in the Transvaal and recently conquered by a vaccine devised in Europe.
A disease of livestock resulting in a high fever and spongy swellings in the muscles of one or more quarters.
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