ANTHRAX


Meaning of ANTHRAX in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈan-ˌthraks ]

noun

Etymology: Middle English antrax carbuncle, from Latin anthrax, from Greek, coal, carbuncle

Date: 1861

: an infectious disease of warm-blooded animals (as cattle and sheep) caused by a spore-forming bacterium ( Bacillus anthracis ), transmissible to humans especially by the handling of infected products (as wool), and characterized by cutaneous ulcerating nodules or by often fatal lesions in the lungs ; also : the bacterium causing anthrax

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