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Anthrax Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Anthrax? [n] a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people Synonyms \| Synonyms for Anthrax: splenic fever Related Terms \| Find terms related to Anthrax: acute articular rheumatism \| African lethargy \| ague \| alkali disease \| altitude sickness \| amebiasis \| amebic dysentery \| anoxemia \| anoxia \| anoxic anoxia \| aphthous fever \| Asiatic cholera \| bacillary dysentery \| bastard measles \| bighead \| black death \| black fever \| black lung \| black quarter \| blackleg \| blackwater \| blackwater fever \| blind staggers \| bloody flux \| breakbone fever \| broken wind \| brucellosis \| bubonic plague \| cachectic fever \| caisson disease \| cattle plague \| cerebral rheumatism \| Chagres fever \| charbon \| chicken pox \| chilblain \| cholera \| cowpox \| dandy fever \| decompression sickness \| deer fly fever \| dengue \| dengue fever \| diphtheria \| distemper \| dumdum fever \| dysentery \| elephantiasis \| encephalitis lethargica \| enteric fever \| erysipelas \| famine fever \| five-day fever \| flu \| foot-and-mouth disease \| frambesia \| frostbite \| gapes \| German measles \| glanders \| glandular fever \| grippe \| hansenosis \| Haverhill fever \| heaves \| hepatitis \| herpes \| herpes simplex \| herpes zoster \| histoplasmosis \| hog cholera \| hoof-and-mouth disease \| hookworm \| hydrophobia \| immersion foot \| infantile paralysis \| infectious mononucleosis \| inflammatory rheumatism \| influenza \| itai \| jail fever \| jet lag \| jungle rot \| kala azar \| kissing disease \| lead poisoning \| lepra \| leprosy \| leptospirosis \| liver rot \| loa loa \| loaiasis \| lockjaw \| loco \| loco disease \| locoism \| mad staggers \| madness \| malaria \| malarial fever \| malignant catarrh \| malignant catarrhal fever \| malignant pustule \| mange \| marsh fever \| measles \| megrims \| meningitis \| mercury poisoning \| milzbrand \| Minamata disease \| motion sickness \| mumps \| ornithosis \| osteomyelitis \| paratuberculosis \| paratyphoid fever \| parotitis \| parrot fever \| pertussis \| pip \| pneumoconiosis \| pneumonia \| polio \| poliomyelitis \| polyarthritis rheumatism \| ponos \| pseudotuberculosis \| psittacosis \| quarter evil \| rabbit fever \| rabies \| radiation sickness \| radionecrosis \| rat-bite fever \| red-out \| relapsing fever \| rheumatic fever \| rickettsialpox \| rinderpest \| ringworm \| rot \| rubella \| rubeola \| scabies \| scarlatina \| scarlet fever \| schistosomiasis \| septic sore throat \| sheep rot \| shingles \| sleeping sickness \| sleepy sickness \| smallpox \| snail fever \| splenic fever \| spotted fever \| staggers \| strep throat \| stringhalt \| sunstroke \| swamp fever \| swine dysentery \| tetanus \| Texas fever \| the bends \| thrush \| tinea \| trench fever \| trench foot \| trench mouth \| tuberculosis \| tularemia \| typhoid \| typhoid fever \| typhus \| typhus fever \| undulant fever \| vaccinia \| varicella \| variola \| venereal disease \| viral dysentery \| whooping cough \| yaws \| yellow fever \| yellow jack \| zona \| zoster See Also \| zoonosis Anthrax In Webster's Dictionary \An"thrax\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? coal, carbuncle.] 1. (Med.) (a) A carbuncle. (b) A malignant pustule. 2. (Biol.) A microscopic, bacterial organism ({Bacillus anthracis}), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under {Bacillus}.] 3. An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped 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}.

Anthrax Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Anthrax?

[n] a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people

Synonyms | Synonyms for Anthrax: splenic fever

See Also | zoonosis

Anthrax In Webster's Dictionary

\An"thrax\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? coal, carbuncle.]
1. (Med.)
   (a) A carbuncle.
   (b) A malignant pustule.

2. (Biol.) A microscopic, bacterial organism ({Bacillus
   anthracis}), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust.
   under {Bacillus}.]

3. An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed
   to the presence of a rod-shaped 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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