单词 | anthracoid |
释义 | anthracoidadj. Chiefly Medicine. Resembling or characteristic of anthrax or the causative bacterium of anthrax ( Bacillus anthracis). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [adjective] > anthrax anthracic1831 anthracoid1836 anthraciform1875 1836 I. Hays Amer. Cycl. Pract. Med. & Surg. II. 127/1 They therefore present, in most instances, that circumscribed, anthracoid appearance. 1881 Daily News 19 Sept. 5/3 Of course the ‘attenuated anthracoid microbe’ is not a panacea. 1906 Jrnl. Cutaneous Dis. 24 503 In the anthracoid case there were open ulcers which discharge pus freely. 1954 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Mar. 686/2 They were heavily outgrown by coliforms and some anthracoid bacilli. 1992 R. C. B. Slack in D. Greenwood et al. Med. Microbiol. (ed. 14) xxii. 276/2 B[acillus] cereus closely resembles B. anthracis in culture, forming large, grey, irregular colonies described as anthracoid. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1836 |
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