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caseous lymphadenitis

n :  a chronic infectious disease of sheep and goats characterized by caseation of the lymph glands and occas. of parts of the lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys that is caused by a bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium (C. pseudotuberculosis) - called also pseudotuberculosis  .
 
 

 
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