porcine

adj.
Of or resembling swine or a pig: "a bald porcine old man" (Vladimir Nabokov).

[Middle English, from Old French porcin, from Latin porcīnus, from porcus, pig.]

adjective

Having too much flesh: corpulent, fat, fatty, fleshy, gross, obese, overblown, overweight, portly, stout, weighty. See fat/thin.

Pertaining to pig. See also hog (1), swine.

• p. circovirus 1 — a nonpathogenic virus.
• p. circovirus 2 — cause of postweaning multisystem wasting syndrome (PMWS) and porcine dermatitis and neuropathy syndrome (below).
• p. contagious pleuropneumonia — see porcine pleuropneumonia.
• p. dermatitis and nephropathy syndrome (PDNS) — recently described and believed to be an immune complex mediated disease. Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) can be identified in a high percentage of cases. Occurs principally in grower/finisher pigs. Pigs may show extensive purplish red, slightly raised lesions of various sizes and shapes over the chest, abdomen, thighs and forelegs. Case fatality is usually high. At postmortem, the kidneys are swollen, pale and mottled with many small hemorrhages showing through the surface. There are enlarged lymph nodes and hemorrhages at multiple sites. The symptoms and postmortem findings are very similar to classical swine fever.
• p. epidemic abortion and respiratory syndrome (PEARS) — see porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (below).
• p. epidemic diarrhea — see porcine epizootic diarrhea (below).
• p. epidemic diarrhea virus — coronavirus 777.
• p. epizootic diarrhea — outbreaks of diarrhea similar to transmissible gastroenteritis caused by coronavirus 777.
• p. hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis — see hemagglutinating encephalomyelitis virus disease of pigs.
• p. hepatitis E virus — an enteric virus of pigs related to human hepatitis E that is not known to be pathogenic.
• p. herpesvirus-1 — see aujeszky's disease.
• p. idiopathic chronic recurrent dermatitis — a dermatitis observed only in sows and only in specific farrowing houses; affected sows recovered when moved from the houses; lesions consisted of annular macules and patches of erythema.
• p. inclusion body rhinitis — see inclusion body rhinitis.
• p. intestinal adenomatosis — see porcine intestinal adenomatosis.
• p. juvenile pustular psoriasiform dermatitis — see porcine juvenile pustular psoriasiform dermatitis.
• p. lymphosarcoma — a rare tumor in pigs but a high proportion of all porcine tumors. Caused by an oncovirus.
• p. malignant hyperthermia — see porcine stress syndrome (below).
• p. myocarditis — a viral syndrome affecting late-term and neonatal pigs. There can be stillbirth, mummification and preweaning deaths.
• p. necrotic ear syndrome — see necrotic ear syndrome.
• p. parvoviral abortion — see porcine parvovirus.
• p. polioencephalomyelitis — see porcine viral encephalomyelitis.
• p. poliomyelitis — see porcine viral encephalomyelitis.
• p. proliferative enteritis complex — see proliferative hemorrhagic enteropathy.
• p. reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) — an arterivirus disease of pigs first recognized in the USA in 1987 and subsequently in many other countries; characterized by severe reproductive failure in sows and respiratory disease in young pigs and an influenza-like syndrome in grower finisher pigs. Acute phases of the disease typically last 2 to 3 months after which reproductive parameters often return to normal or exhibit decreases in the farrowing rate and irregular returns to estrus. Numerous strains of the virus are reported in the USA and Europe with differrences in pathogenicity. Prior to a consensus, called also mystery swine disease, swine infertility respiratory syndrome (SIRS), porcine epidemic abortion and respiratory syndrome (PEARS), blue ear disease, and Heko-Heko.
• p. respiratory coronavirus — closely related but distinct from transmissible gastroenteritis (TGE) virus. Causes a mild, sometimes inapparent, respiratory infection, but no gastrointestinal disease
• p. rubulavirus — a paramyxovirus in the genus Rubulavirus, first described in Mexico. Causes a generalized disease in pigs that includes corneal edema (blue eye) and respiratory infection.
• p. SMEDI viruses — enteroviruses or parvoviruses causing stillbirths, mummification, embryonic deaths and infertility in sows.
• p. streptococcal meningitis — see streptococcal meningitis.
• p. stress syndrome (PSS) — is an acute death syndrome in pigs occurring usually after transportation, fighting, exercise or even high environmental temperature. If signs are observed they include increasing dyspnea, tremor and stiffness, severe hyperthermia and a rapid onset of rigor mortis after death. A genetic disorder, more common in breeds where there has been selection for muscling. Homozygous recessive (Hal gene) pigs are susceptible to develop the syndrome following stress. Heterozygous pigs are at risk to develop pale soft exudative pork (PSE) at slaughter. Halothane testing or genotyping can be used to determine the genotype of pigs for breeding. Called also herztod, pale soft exudative pork, malignant hyperthermia, transport death, acute back muscle necrosis.
• p. ulcerative spirochetosis — see ulcerative granuloma of swine.
• p. wattles — see porcine wattles.

Note: click on a word meaning below to see its connections and related words.

The adjective has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: relating to or suggesting swine
  Pertains to noun: swine (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: repellently fat
  Synonym: gross

Meaning #3: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
  Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, swinish

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - som ligner en gris

Nederlands (Dutch)
zwijnachtig

Français (French)
adj. - porcin

Deutsch (German)
adj. - schweineähnlich, Schweine-

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - χοιρινός, γουρουνίσιος

Italiano (Italian)
porcino

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - porcino

Русский (Russian)
свиной

Español (Spanish)
adj. - porcino

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - grisliknande, gris-

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
猪似的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 豬似的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 돼지의[같은] , 불결한

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 豚の, 豚に似た, 不潔な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) خنزيري‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮דומה לחזיר, חזירי‬

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