See Also: Disease, hand-foot-and-mouth(health)
Hand-foot-and-mouth disease(health)
hand-foot-and-mouth disease(medicine)
hand-foot-and-mouth disease virus(medicine)
hand-and-foot syndrome(medicine)
foot and mouth disease(dictionary)
foot-and-mouth disease(medicine)
foot-and-mouth disease (FMD)(encyclopedia)
Foot-and-mouth disease(health)
Foot and Mouth disease(health)

Disease, hand-foot-and-mouth (health) and tame(2) (iou)


Disease, hand-foot-and-mouth (health)


A viral syndrome with a rash on the hands and feet and in the mouth. The internal rash (the enanthem) consists of blisters and little ulcers that may involve not only the lining of the mouth but also the gums, palate, and tongue. The external rash on the body (the exanthem) typically affects the hands (most commonly), feet and, sometimes, the buttocks. There may also be sore throat, irritability, decreased appetite, and fever.





tame(2) (iou)



tame verb1.
[Old English temman, temian, from Germanic base of TAME adjective: superseded in Middle English by forms directly from the adjective.]
verb trans. Bring (a wild animal) under the control or into the service of humans; reclaim from the wild state, make tame, domesticate. OE.
C. Lyell The lake-dwellers succeeded in taming that formidable brute.
b. Bring under or into cultivation. E17-M18.
verb trans. Overcome the wildness or fierceness of (a person, animal, or thing); control, subdue, curb; make tractable or docile. OE.
Milton This River-dragon tam'd at length submits To let his sojourners depart. N. Gordimer His hair, still long, had been combed wet until tamed. R. Fraser Marriage to Maria helped tame a spirit that could flash out into unwise behaviour. Time The battle to tame inflation has been exasperating.
verb trans. Reduce the intensity of; temper, soften, mellow. L15.
F. T. Palgrave Manhood's colours tamed to gray. H. Carpenter She tries to tame her masculine aggression and to cultivate feminine self-control.
verb intrans. Become tame; grow more tractable or docile. Also foll. by down. M17.
L. Adamic Now..in power, the Radicals tamed down and changed their color. New Yorker The okapi tames readily.
Comb.: tame-poison the swallowwort Vincetoxicum officinale (family Asclepiadaceae), the root of which was formerly used as an antidote to poisons.
tamer noun M16.