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heaves

noun

1 heaves

A chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks.

synonym: broken wind.

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more


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