mange
pronunciation
How to pronounce mange in British English:
UK [meɪndʒ]
How to pronounce mange in American English:
US [meɪndʒ]
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- Noun:
- a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic animals (and sometimes people)
Word Origin
- mange (n.)
- "skin disease of animals," early 15c., from Old French manjue "the itch," also "hunger, appetite; itching, longing," literally "the eating," verbal noun from a collateral form of Old French mangier "to eat" (Modern French manger) "to eat," from Late Latin manducare "to chew, eat," from manducus "glutton," from Latin mandere "to chew" (see mandible).
Example
- 1. How would you mange her liver injury ?
- 2. Click site actions , and then click mange content and structure .
- 3. Baldrick is suffering from mange and has lost all his spikes , rendering him almost completely bald
- 4. Bald spots can also be caused by mange .
- 5. When our vet found him , he was roaming free with a wire collar embedded in his neck and a raging case of mange .