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Anthrax   /ˈænθræks/   Listen
Anthrax

noun
(pl. anthraces)
1.
A highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people.  Synonym: splenic fever.
2.
A disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia.



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"Anthrax" Quotes from Famous Books



... disease; cripple; the halt the lame and the blind; valetudinary^, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick- chamber. [Science of disease] pathology, etiology, nosology^. [Veterinary] anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter^; cattle plague, glanders^, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest. [disease-causing agents] virus, bacterium, bacteria. [types of viruses] DNA virus; RNA virus. [RNA ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

... of plains burned by the sun and killed by the cold, of ill cattle and ill people; the nest of pests, anthrax and smallpox; the land of boiling hot springs and of mountain passes inhabited by demons; of sacred lakes swarming with fish; of wolves, rare species of deer and mountain goats, marmots in millions, wild horses, wild donkeys and wild camels that have never known ...
— Beasts, Men and Gods • Ferdinand Ossendowski

... all be true, but, mark his words, the minute my herd gets into inland waters it will develop some kind of disease like anthrax or blackleg, and the whole bunch will die on me. Sandy says it will be a simple matter to vaccinate, because the animals will be as affectionate as kittens by that time through having been kindly handled, which is all a whale ...
— Ma Pettengill • Harry Leon Wilson

... animals. France was losing sheep and oxen at the rate of from fifteen to twenty millions annually. The services of M. Pasteur were again in demand. Again he discovered that the devastator was a microscopic destroyer. It was anthrax. The result of his experimenting was the discovery of an antidote, a method of prevention by inoculation with attenuated microbes. Similar studies and experiments and discoveries enabled him to furnish relief to the hog, at a time when the hog-cholera was making devastations. As he ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller



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