Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun milk_sickness

2 senses of milk sickness

Sense 1
trembles, milk sickness -- (disease of livestock and especially cattle poisoned by eating certain kinds of snakeroot)
       => animal disease -- (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)

Sense 2
milk sickness -- (caused by consuming milk from cattle suffering from trembles)
       => disease -- (an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning)