Definitions for "Heaves"
A disease of horses, characterized by difficult breathing, with heaving of the flank, wheezing, flatulency, and a peculiar cough; broken wind.
Term used to describe the abnormal breathing pattern seen in horses with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease COPD, or broken winded. Also a common name for COPD.
a chronic emphysema of the horse that causes difficult expiration and heaving of the flanks
Keywords:  hay, unloading, truckful, act
The act of unloading a truckful of hay.
Keywords:  displacing, upward, swells
upward displacing swells.
Keywords:  labored, lungs, damage, breathing
Damage to the lungs, resulting in labored breathing.