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crazy chick disease

noun \-ˈchik-\

Medical Definition of CRAZY CHICK DISEASE

:  a disease of the nervous system of young chickens caused by inadequate intake of vitamin E and marked by severe muscular incoordination, tremors, and encephalomalacia followed by paralysis and by renal congestion and failure—called also crazy chick

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