Usage of "distempers"

Russian

чумка собак

Portuguese

cinomose

Spanish

virus del moquillo canino

Catalan

virus del brom

Dog disease.

Related terms

dog disease

чумка собак

Synonyms

Examples for "distemper"

Expensive watches would only be the first victims of our dwarf's distemper. 
 Futures 1 

This malignant distemper had destroyed numbers of prisoners during the preceding years. 
 My Ten Years' Imprisonment 

In weak minds, it is a chronic distemper, followed by incurable indolence. 
 Tales and Novels — Volume 08 

Forgetting my distemper, I grabbed my cap and joined the expectant throngs. 
 In the Footprints of the Padres 

At present it must be considered is a distemper not well understood. 
 The Harvard Classics Volume 38 / Scientific Papers (Physiology, ... 

These results implicate canine distemper virus infection as the primary cause of death. 
 Pubmed 

They died in numbers from something akin to canine distemper. 
 The Irish Times 

Porpoise and seal isolates differed in their reactions to monoclonal antibodies to canine distemper virus. 
 Pubmed 

In this study a real-time RT-PCR assay was developed for detection and quantitation of canine distemper virus. 
 Pubmed 

What is canine distemper? 
 The South African 

Usage of distempers in English

Some have had sore distempers of conscience, and puddling exercises of terror. 
 The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning 

They are the distempers of elections, that have destroyed all free states. 
 Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches 

As my husband drew near his end, his distempers had no intermission. 
 The Autobiography of Madame Guyon 

As nitre cleanses the body, so distempers and other chastisements purify the soul. 
 The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J... 

The water of this spring is drank for some distempers still. 
 Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects 

During his long residence in tropical climates, he had contracted several painful distempers. 
 Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 

But with our own distempers and adversities it is altogether different. 
 Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries / Inter... 

Frigates, mortars, bayonets, sabres, were the proper remedies for such distempers. 
 Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 

Fluxes and contagious distempers crept in among the soldiers, who perished in great numbers. 
 The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I., Part E. / From... 

There is in some quarters a disposition to create distempers in this body politic. 
 New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, ... 

The state is to have recruits to its strength, and remedies to its distempers. 
 Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke 

Soap would soon remove her anxious distress about foreign distempers. 
 The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches 

They have sometimes pleurisies and fevers, but no chronical distempers. 
 Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe / Founder of the Colo... 

These distempers, as well as their cures, fall nine times in ten upon the lungs. 
 Letters to His Son, 1750 / On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of ... 

This bird, by drinking saltwater purges itself of distempers. 
 The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2 

For this is Epicurus's way of discourse to persons under grievous distempers and excessive pains. 
 Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies 