Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - foot-and-mouth disease

 noun  Date: 1862 an acute contagious febrile disease especially of cloven-footed animals that is caused by serotypes of a picornavirus (species Foot-and-mouth disease virus of the genus Aphthovirus) and is marked by ulcerating vesicles in the mouth, about the hooves, and on the udder and teats — called also foot-and-mouth, hoof-and-mouth disease — compare hand, foot and mouth disease