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

1 sense of shipping fever

Sense 1
shipping fever, shipping pneumonia -- (a deadly form of septicemia in cattle and sheep; involves high fever and pneumonia; contracted under conditions of exposure or exhaustion (as often happens when the animals are shipped to market))
       => animal disease -- (a disease that typically does not affect human beings)
       => blood poisoning, septicemia, septicaemia -- (invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection)