anti-rabicadj.
Having the property of counteracting the virus of rabies; curing, or relating to the cure of, rabies.
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anti-rabic1887
1887 Science IX. 186 The Russian antirabic inoculation institution [in Odessa].
1919 Times Weekly 25 Apr. 404 The treatment of patients with specific anti-rabic material.
1938 Brit. Jrnl. Exp. Path. 19 378 The successful cultivation of rabies virus in tissue cultures..has raised the possibility of simplifying antirabic immunization by the use of such cultures.
Derivatives
anti-rabies n. used attrib.
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1961 Times 23 Dec. 9/2 He was the first human being to receive anti-rabies inoculation.
anti-rabietic adj. /reɪbɪˈɛtɪk/
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1888 Nature 22 Nov. 73/2 The anti-rabietic treatment of M. Pasteur.
anti-rabific adj. /reɪˈbɪfɪk/
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1894 Nature 8 Mar. 437/2 The establishment in the chief town of each province of an antirabific laboratory.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online November 2010).
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