Meanings
- uncountablebiologyA highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.
1 more example
So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], pages 301–302Synonyms: aftosa, foot and mouth, hoof-and-mouth disease
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA highly contagious and sometimes fatal viral disease that can affect animals with cloven hooves.
More synonyms by meaning
nounacute contagious disease of cloven-footed animals marked by ulcers in the mouth and around the hoofs
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Afrikaans bek-en-klouseer
- bek-en-klouseerfoot-and-mouth disease
Arabic حَمَّى قُلَاعِيَّة
- حَمَّى قُلَاعِيَّة (ḥammā qulāʕiyya)foot-and-mouth disease
Bulgarian шап
- шап (šap)foot-and-mouth disease
Catalan febre aftosa
- febre aftosafoot-and-mouth disease
Chinese Mandarin 口蹄疫
- 口蹄疫 (kǒutíyì)foot-and-mouth disease
Czech slintavka a kulhavka
- slintavka a kulhavkafoot-and-mouth disease
Danish mund- og klovsyge
- mund- og klovsygefoot-and-mouth disease
Dutch mond-en-klauwzeer
- mond-en-klauwzeerfoot-and-mouth disease
Esperanto aftozo, afta febro
- aftozofoot-and-mouth disease
- afta febrofoot-and-mouth disease
- epizootia aftofoot-and-mouth disease
Estonian suu- ja sõrataud, sõrataud
- suu- ja sõrataudfoot-and-mouth disease
- sõrataudfoot-and-mouth disease
Finnish suu- ja sorkkatauti
- suu- ja sorkkatautifoot-and-mouth disease
French fièvre aphteuse
- fièvre aphteusefoot-and-mouth disease
German Maul- und Klauenseuche, MKS
- Maul- und Klauenseuchefoot-and-mouth disease
- MKSfoot-and-mouth disease
- Aphthenseuchefoot-and-mouth disease
- Hand-Fuß-Mund-Krankheitfoot-and-mouth disease
Greek αφθώδης πυρετός
- αφθώδης πυρετός (afthódis pyretós)foot-and-mouth disease
Hebrew מחלת הפה והטלפיים
- מחלת הפה והטלפייםfoot-and-mouth disease
Hindi मुंहपका-खुरपका रोग
- मुंहपका-खुरपका रोग (mũhapkā-khurapkā rog)foot-and-mouth disease
Hungarian száj- és körömfájás
- száj- és körömfájásfoot-and-mouth disease
Irish galar crúibe is béil
- galar crúibe is béilfoot-and-mouth disease
Italian afta epizootica
- afta epizooticafoot-and-mouth disease
Japanese 口蹄疫
- 口蹄疫 (kōteieki)foot-and-mouth disease
Korean 구제역
- 구제역 (gujeyeok)foot-and-mouth disease
Latin febris aphtosa, aphtae epizooticae
- febris aphtosafoot-and-mouth disease
- aphtae epizooticaefoot-and-mouth disease
Lithuanian snukio ir nagų liga
- snukio ir nagų ligafoot-and-mouth disease
Māori kōmaoa waewaha
- kōmaoa waewahafoot-and-mouth disease
Norwegian munn- og klovsyke
- munn- og klovsykefoot-and-mouth disease
Polish pryszczyca
- pryszczycafoot-and-mouth disease
Portuguese febre aftosa
- febre aftosafoot-and-mouth disease
Romanian febră aftoasă
- febră aftoasăfoot-and-mouth disease
Russian я́щур
- я́щур (jáščur)foot-and-mouth disease
Spanish fiebre aftosa, glosopeda
- fiebre aftosafoot-and-mouth disease
- glosopedafoot-and-mouth disease
Swedish mul- och klövsjuka, mulsjuka
- mul- och klövsjukafoot-and-mouth disease
- mulsjukafoot-and-mouth disease
- gallafoot-and-mouth disease
Thai โรคเท้าเปื่อยปากเปื่อยของสัตว์
- โรคเท้าเปื่อยปากเปื่อยของสัตว์ (rôhk táo pèuay pàak pèuay kŏng sàt)foot-and-mouth disease
Turkish şap, zoonoz
- şapfoot-and-mouth disease
- zoonozfoot-and-mouth disease
- dabakfoot-and-mouth disease
Ukrainian я́щур
- я́щур (jáščur)foot-and-mouth disease
Vietnamese (bệnh) sốt lở mồm long móng, (bệnh) sốt aptơ
- (bệnh) sốt lở mồm long móngfoot-and-mouth disease
- (bệnh) sốt aptơfoot-and-mouth disease
Welsh clwyf y traed a’r genau
- clwyf y traed a’r genaufoot-and-mouth disease
Cite this entry
foot-and-mouth disease. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foot-and-mouth%20disease
“foot-and-mouth disease.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foot-and-mouth%20disease. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foot-and-mouth disease,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foot-and-mouth%20disease.
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