GLANDERS

noun plural but singular or plural in construction Etymology: Middle French glandre glandular swelling on the neck, from Latin glandulae, from plural of glandula, diminutive of gland-, glans Date: 1523 a contagious and destructive disease especially of horses caused by a bacterium ( Pseudomonas mallei syn. Actinobacillus mallei ) and characterized by caseating nodular lesions especially on the respiratory mucosae and lungs that tend to break down and form ulcers