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Definition of Cutaneous anthrax
1. Noun. A form of anthrax infection that begins as papule that becomes a vesicle and breaks with a discharge of toxins; symptoms of septicemia are severe with vomiting and high fever and profuse sweating; the infection is often fatal.
Medical Definition of Cutaneous anthrax
1. The skin of B. Anthracis infection characteristic lesion that begins as a papule and soon becomes a vesicle and breaks, discharging a bloody serum; the seat of this vesicle, in about 36 hours, becomes a bluish black necrotic mass; constitutional symptoms of septicaemia are severe: high fever, vomiting, profuse sweating, and extreme prostration; the infection is often fatal. Synonym: malignant pustule. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutaneous Anthrax
Literary usage of Cutaneous anthrax
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Department of Defense Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program: Congressional edited by John Warner (2001)
"Untreated cutaneous anthrax infection is associated with a death rate ...
Treatment of cutaneous anthrax infection involves administration of antibiotics. ..."
2. Reopening Public Facilities After a Biological Attack: A Decision Making by National Research Council (2005)
"Progression of cutaneous anthrax results in a painless eschar with edema. ...
However, the recovery rate from cutaneous anthrax is nearly 100% if it is ..."
3. Defense Vaccines: Force Protection Or False Security? edited by Dan Burton (2001)
"I hate to use this—the way it's stated appears that there's protection of cutaneous
anthrax fully. The study basically said that even under this kind of ..."
4. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1922)
"It is now known that the pustule of cutaneous anthrax frequently heals spontaneously
if it is left to its own devices and not subjected to operation or ..."
5. Infectious Diseases by James Cornelius Wilson, Julius Lincoln Salinger (1910)
"Naturally, we mu^t not limit ourselves in the bacteriological examination of
cutaneous anthrax only to the microscopic demonstration of bacilli, ..."
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