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Definition of Splenic fever
1. Noun. A highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people.
Definition of Splenic fever
1. Noun. (medicine) An old name for anthrax. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Splenic fever
1. Known also as anthrax, splenic fever is a serious bacterial infection. It is not primarily a human disease but rather an infection of animals. Cattle, sheep, horses, mules, and some wild animals are highly susceptible. Humans (and swine) are generally resistant to anthrax. Anthrax can take different forms. With the lung form of the disease. People inhale the anthrax spores and, if untreated, are likely to die. An intestinal form is caused by eating meat contaminated with anthrax. But most human anthrax comes from skin contact with animal products. Cutaneous (skin) anthrax was once well known among people who handled infected animals, like farmers, more than woolsorters, tanners, brushmakers and carpetmakers in the days when the brushes and carpets were animal products. The hallmark of skin anthrax is a carbuncle, a cluster of boils, that ulcerates in an ugly way. Typically, this lesion has a hard black centre surrounded by bright red inflammation. This accounts for its name, anthrax , the greek word for coal. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Splenic Fever
Literary usage of Splenic fever
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"... twenty-four to forty-eight hours there occurs a typical swelling of the testes.
3. Anthrax (splenic fever).—This affection is common in oxen and sheep ..."
2. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"of experiments that the microbe of splenic fever does not develop when subjected
to a temperature of 44° Centigrade. Now, the temperature of birds being ..."
3. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1872)
"The coast cattle do not communicate splenic fever to other coast cattle, ...
If the true splenic fever, this must be mis- reported, and must refer to native ..."
4. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"of experiments that the microbe of splenic fever does not develop when subjected
to a temperature of 44° Centigrade. Now, the temperature of birds being ..."
5. Microbes, Ferments and Moulds by Édouard Louis Trouessart (1886)
"I. ANTHRAX, OR splenic fever. THE first of the virulent and contagious diseases
in which the presence of a microbe was positively ascertained was anthrax, ..."
6. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1880)
"Bacillus An- -i • i , i , . i > it i • splenic fever (of Cattle). splenic fever
is a disease not uncommon amongst cattle, and is both enzootic and ..."
7. A Text-book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body: Including an by Arthur Gamgee (1880)
"splenic fever (of Cattle). splenic fever is a disease not uncommon amongst ...
or rod-like bacteria, which he believed to be the cause of splenic fever. ..."
8. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1880)
"Report on an Inquiry into the Nature, Causes, and Prevention of splenic fever,
Quarter-Evil and Allied Diseases, made at the Brown Institution. ..."
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