Word Meanings - LUMPY-JAW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Actinomycosis.

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• ACTINOMYCOSIS
  A chronic infectious disease of cattle and man due to the presence of Actinomyces bovis. It causes local suppurating tumors, esp. about the jaw. Called also lumpy jaw or big jaw. -- Ac`ti*no*my*cot"ic , a.