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Definition of Anthrax

1. Noun. A highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people.

2. Noun. A disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia.

Definition of Anthrax

1. n. A carbuncle.

Definition of Anthrax

1. Noun. (pathology) An acute infectious bacterial disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle. It can occur in humans through contact with infected animals, tissue from infected animals, or high concentrations of anthrax spores, but is not usually spread between humans. Symptoms include lesions on the skin or in the lungs, and it is often fatal. ¹

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Definition of Anthrax

1. an infectious disease [n -THRACES]

Medical Definition of Anthrax

1. An infectious bacterial zoonotic disease usually acquired by ingestion of Bacillus anthracis or its spores from infected pastures by herbivores or indirectly from infected carcasses by carnivores. It is transmitted to humans usually by contact with infected animals or their discharges (agricultural anthrax) or with contaminated animal products (industrial anthrax). Anthrax is classified by primary routes of inoculation as: cutaneous, gastrointestinal and inhalational. Synonym: charbon, milzbrand and splenic fever. (18 Nov 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthrax

anthramycins anthranilate anthranilate monooxygenase anthranilate phosphoribosyltransferase anthranilate synthase anthranilates anthranilic anthranilic acid anthranilic acids anthraniloyl

anthraonite anthrapurpurin anthraquinone anthraquinones anthrarufin anthrax (current term) anthrax immunization anthrax pneumonia anthrax septicaemia anthrax toxin

anthraxes anthraxlike anthraxolite anthraxolites anthrenus anthro anthro- anthroconidia anthroconservatism anthrohistory

Literary usage of Anthrax

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report (1905)
"anthrax-LIKE BACILLI. DAVID J. LEVY. A short time ago I received some hair and crusts from the skin of cattle of the western part of this county for ..."

2. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"skin by flies; Schuberg and Kuhn 1 have shown that anthrax may be transferred from animal to animal through the bite of the stable fly (Stomoxys calcitrans) ..."

3. Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses: Final Report edited by Joyce C Laslof, John D Baldeschwieler, Marguerite Knox (1997)
"In cases where an individual survives exposure to anthrax or botulinum toxin ... anthrax and Botulinum Toxoid Vaccines Before US troops deployed to the Gulf ..."

4. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1918)
"As pointed out in the introductory chapter, the demonstration by Robert Koch f in 1876 of the causal relation between anthrax and a specific bacillus marks ..."

5. A Text-book of the practice of medicine by James Meschter Anders, John Herr Musser (1917)
"The occurrence of anthrax in the United States is much more frequent than has ... Tonne give as the microscopic characteristics of anthrax, as seen in the ..."

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