rabicadj.
/ˈrabɪk/, /ˈreɪbɪk/, U.S. /ˈræbɪk/ Medicine.
1. Of or relating to rabies or animals affected with rabies.
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hydrophobical1650
hydrophobial1662
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rabid1733
hydrophobic1807
rabific1838
rabic1841
hydrophobious1843
1841 Brit. & Foreign Med. Rev. 11 229 A true rabic virus newly secreted,..the nature of which is as yet completely unknown to us.
1885 Lady C. Hamilton tr. Louis Pasteur 295 The saliva loses its rabic virulence in twenty-four hours.
1925 Sci. Monthly Oct. 381 Experiment shows that the true seat of the rabic virus is the brain and the spinal cord.
1976 Devel. Biol. Standardization 37 287 All the individuals vaccinated post-exposure remained without rabic symptoms.
1991 G. W. Beran & J. H. Steele Handbk. Zoonoses (Sect. B: Viral) (ed. 2) 6 Rabic pneumonia following aerosol exposure is a new area of investigation.
2. Affected with rabies; rabid. Now rare.
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rabid1822
rabic1887
1887 Dolan Hydrophobia 33 Out of the 38 Russians bitten by wolves, 3 died rabic.
1910 Lancet 30 Apr. 1236/1 During the last four or five years 260 cases of bites by rabic animals have been reported in the province.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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