Medical Dictionary

summer mastitis

noun

Medical Definition of SUMMER MASTITIS

:  bovine mastitis that occurs sporadically especially in cattle on summer pasture and is caused by a pus-forming bacterium of the genus Corynebacterium (C. pyogenes)

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