Medical term:

orf


orf

 [orf]
a contagious pustular viral dermatitis of sheep, sometimes communicable to humans.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

orf

(ōrf),
A specific disease of sheep and goats, caused by the orf virus, family Poxviridae. This virus is transmissible to humans and characterized by vesiculation and ulceration of the infected site.
Synonym(s): contagious ecthyma, scabby mouth, soremouth
[O.E. orfcwealm, murrain, fr. orf, cattle, + cwealm, destruction]
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
A benign self-limited parapoxvirus infection acquired by handling infected sheep and goat skins and flesh which, in young animals, causes watery warty lesions of the cornea, mucous membranes and lips
Agent Orf virus is similar to that causing milker’s nodes
Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.

ORF

Oral rehydration fluid

orf

Ecthyma contagiosum A benign self-limited parapoxvirus infection acquired by handling infected sheep and goat skins and flesh which, in young animals, causes watery warty lesions of the cornea, mucous membranes and lips; in canines, orf-orf Clinical Hypertrophic bullae at inoculation site which, in immunocompromised Pts, may be very large Agent Orf virus is similar to that causing milker's nodes
McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

orf

A pox virus infection of sheep and goats that occasionally spreads to humans causing a fluid-filled blister on the hand or arm that may persist for weeks.
Collins Dictionary of Medicine © Robert M. Youngson 2004, 2005

ORF

see OPEN READING FRAME.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005

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