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anthrax|ˈænθræks|
[a. L. anthrax a carbuncle, a. Gr. ἄνθραξ coal, a carbuncle.]
1. A carbuncle, or malignant boil.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lix. (1495) 275 Antrax is a postume whyche cometh of ful wood matere and venemous..It is callyd also Carbunculus, for it brennyth as a cole. 1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. ii. xix. 29 Anthrax is a malygne pustle, havynge about it certayne lytle yelowe veynes of the coloure of the rayne bowe. 1706Phillips, Anthrax..a Carbuncle-swelling..that arises in several Parts surrounded with fiery, sharp, and painful Pimples. 1871Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 171 Anthrax of the lips has nothing in common with malignant pustule.
2. The ‘splenic fever’ of sheep and cattle, discovered by M. Pasteur to result from the introduction of minute organisms into the blood of the animal, and their rapid reproduction there. Also applied to the carbuncular disease, otherwise called malignant pustule, caused in man by infection from animals so affected.
1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. 4 Infection..from a diseased animal, e.g. glanders, anthrax, and hydrophobia. 188019th Cent. Nov. 858 Sheep of the very breed most liable to anthrax. 1882Standard 29 Dec. 2/2 The third case was one of external anthrax in..a..wool-comber. |