English Dictionary

vives

名詞

廃用 不可算名詞

(obsolete) A disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.

日本語の意味

（旧用語）馬などの動物にみられる病気。耳の下にある腺で腫瘍が形成され、時として化膿に至る病気。

The stablemaster worried that the old mare's swelling might be vives, a condition he'd only read about in antiquated veterinary texts.

厩舎の管理人は、老いた雌馬の腫れが耳の下の腺にできる腫瘍で、時に化膿することのある馬などの動物の病気ではないかと心配した。それは彼が古い獣医学の文献でしか読んだことのない病状だった。

意味（1）

(obsolete) A disease of animals, especially horses, based in the glands under the ear, where a tumour is formed which sometimes ends in suppuration.

The Vives, like the strangles, is most incident to young horses, and usually proceeds from the same causes, such as catching cold, being over-heated, or over-worked, about the time of shedding their teeth.