mange

mange
    n 1: a persistent and contagious disease of the skin causing
         inflammation and itching and loss of hair; affects domestic
         animals (and sometimes people)
    

Mange \Mange\, n. [See {Mangy}.] (Vet.)
   The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.
   [1913 Webster]

   {Mange insect} (Zool.), any one of several species of small
      parasitic mites, which burrow in the skin of cattle.
      horses, dogs, and other animals, causing the mange. The
      mange insect of the horse ({Psoroptes equi} or
      {Dermatodectes equi}), and that of cattle ({Symbiotes
      bovis} or {Dermatophagys bovis}) are the most important
      species. See {Acarina}.
      [1913 Webster]
    

43 Moby Thesaurus words for "mange":
      Texas fever, anthrax, aphthous fever, bighead, black quarter,
      blackleg, blackwater, blind staggers, bloody flux, broken wind,
      cattle plague, charbon, distemper, foot-and-mouth disease, gapes,
      glanders, heaves, hog cholera, hoof-and-mouth disease, hydrophobia,
      liver rot, loco, loco disease, locoism, mad staggers,
      malignant catarrh, malignant catarrhal fever, malignant pustule,
      megrims, milzbrand, paratuberculosis, pip, pseudotuberculosis,
      quarter evil, rabies, rinderpest, rot, scabies, sheep rot,
      splenic fever, staggers, stringhalt, swine dysentery