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Anthrax   Listen
noun
Anthrax  n.  
1.
(Med.)
(a)
A carbuncle.
(b)
A malignant pustule.
2.
(Biol.) A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods.
3.
An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped gram-positive bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.





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"Anthrax" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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


Words linked to "Anthrax" :   pulmonary anthrax, anthrax bacillus, splenic fever, ragpicker's disease, inhalation anthrax, woolsorter's disease, malignant pustule


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