botts

The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse.

Noun

  1. The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse.
  2. Infection by maggots under the skin of cows, or by sheep maggots in the frontal sinus of sheep.

Origin

Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag 'maggot'

Related

botfly myiasis