Glossary of Mastitis and Epidemiology Terms for Udder Health Indices

Simon Dufour authored this glossary of mastitis and epidemiology terms as a supplement to a review on herd-level udder health indices for the Journal of Dairy Science. Updated in February 2026, the resource provides standardized definitions for dairy cattle health monitoring and milk recording analysis. It serves as a linguistic framework for interpreting individual somatic cell count (SCC) measurements at the herd level.

Use Cases

• Standardizing terminology in dairy science research using the mastitis and epidemiology definitions
• Developing NLP models for veterinary medicine by using the glossary as a domain-specific dictionary
• Educational reference for interpreting herd-level indices in dairy cattle health reports

Strengths

• Expert-curated by a researcher in Agricultural Sciences
• Standardizes terminology for the Journal of Dairy Science
• Focuses specifically on herd-level udder health indices

Limitations

• Contains only textual definitions, no quantitative datasets
• Narrow scope limited to mastitis and epidemiology terminology

Provenance

Source

Borealis Harvested Dataverse / Journal of Dairy Science

Collection Method

Expert annotation and literature review

Freshness

Last updated February 2026.