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scours (medicine)


scours
Neonatal diarrhoea in ruminants.

Origin: M.E. Scuren, to rush

Calf scours, a diarrhoeal disease of newborn calves caused by several different enteropathogens, particularly the bacterium Escherichia coli; two syndromes are recognised, acute disease characterised by dehydration and rapid death and subacute disease characterised by persistent diarrhoea and emaciation.


skit(5) (iou)



skit verb2. Now rare. Infl. -tt-. E17.
[Perh. ult. from Old Norse alt. of stem of skjota SHOOT verb. Cf. SKITE verb2.]
verb intrans. Move lightly and rapidly (away); flit. E17.
a. verb trans. Comment indirectly on (dial.); satirize or ridicule in a skit. L18.
b. verb intrans. Foll. by at: make a satirical comment or attack on a person or thing. E19.