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navel ill

n :  a serious septicemia of newborn animals caused by pus-producing bacteria entering the body through the umbilical cord or opening and typically marked by joint inflammation or arthritis accompanied by generalized pyemia, rapid debilitation, and commonly death - called also joint evil , joint ill , pyosepticemia  .
 
 

 
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