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n. Plural form of heave.

n. A period of retching.

n. A disease of horses characterized by coughing and difficult breathing.

v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of heave.

n. A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.

A disease of horses, characterized by difficult and laborious respiration.

n. a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks

"The term heaves is applied almost wholly to an emphysematous condition of the lungs."

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