ANTHRAX
\ˈanθɹaks], \ˈanθɹaks], \ˈa_n_θ_ɹ_a_k_s]\
Definitions of ANTHRAX
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A carbuncle.
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A malignant pustule.
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A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]
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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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A carbuncle.
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A malignant pustule.
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A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.]
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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An acute bacterial infection caused by ingestion of BACILLUS organisms. Carnivores may become infected from ingestion of infected carcasses. It is transmitted to humans by contact with infected animals or contaminated animal products. The most common form in humans is cutaneous anthrax.
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1. Carbuncle. 2. Splenic fever, an infectious disease of animals, especially the herbivora, due to the presence in the blood of Bacillus anthracis. 3. Wool-sorters disease (pulmonary form), mycosis intestinalis (gastroenteric form), malignant pustule or malignant edema (cutaneous form), occurring in man from infection with Bacillus anthracis; the disease is marked by hemorrhage and serous effusions in the organs and cavities in the body, and symptoms of extreme prostration.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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An inflammation, essentially gangrenous, of the cellular membrane and skin, which may arise from an internal or external cause. It has been thought by some to be induced altogether by contact with the matter of the carbuncle of animals, or of the exuviae of the bodies of such as had died of the disease, but it is now known to arise primarily in the human subject. Anthrax is a malignant boil, and its treatment is similar to that which is required in case of gangrene attacking a part.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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