encephalomyocarditis
noun
en·ceph·a·lo·myo·car·di·tis
in-ˌse-fə-lō-ˌmī-ə-kär-ˈdī-təs 
: an acute febrile disease of numerous vertebrates and especially swine caused by a picornavirus (Cardiovirus rueckerti) and marked by degeneration and inflammation of skeletal and cardiac muscle and lesions of the central nervous system
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encephalomyocarditis
noun
en·ceph·a·lo·myo·car·di·tis
-ˌmī-ə-kär-ˈdīt-əs
: an acute febrile viral disease that affects numerous vertebrates including humans but is of serious clinical significance mostly in swine, that is caused by any of several strains of a picornavirus (genus Cardiovirus and especially C. rueckerti), and that in swine is characterized especially by degeneration and inflammation of skeletal and cardiac muscle and lesions of the central nervous system
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