milk fever in English
noun
1
an acute illness in female cows, goats, etc., that have just produced young, caused by calcium deficiency.
Vitamin D has a more direct role in prevention of milk fever and other aberrations of calcium metabolism.
2
a fever in women caused by infection after childbirth, formerly supposed to be due to the swelling of the breasts with milk.
My mother, it should be said, had milk fever and couldn't breastfeed me.
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1. Common disorders that can occur include milk fever, clinical ketosis, displaced Abomasa, mastitis, metritis and endometritis, all of which reduce subsequent fertility.