actinomycosis

An infectious disease of cattle, and occasionally of human beings, characterized mainly by tumorlike growths of the jaws, due to the lodgment and growth of Actinomyces bovis. The substance of the growths, which spring mostly from the alveoli of the lower molars, resembles that of chronic inflammatory ti ue called granulomata, in having a granular structure, but the growths ACUPUNCTURE contain absce like cavities inclosing sulphur yellow bodies consisting of -felted ma es of the mycelia of the actinomyces. The disease in man is attended by lo of weight and strength and by fever. The granulomata may develop in the viscera as well as in the bones and skin.