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milk fever

Definition of milk fever

noun

[mass noun]
  • 1an acute illness in female cows, goats, etc. that have just produced young, caused by calcium deficiency.
  • 2a fever in women caused by infection after childbirth, formerly supposed to be due to the swelling of the breasts with milk.

milk fever in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of milk fever in the US English dictionary