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Originally: an acute, usually fatal disease of livestock characterized by high fever, laboured breathing, staggering or convulsions, and…
Anthrax in livestock, which causes gross splenomegaly, esp. in cattle. Cf. milt-sickness n. at milt, n. compounds.
Malignant pustule; = anthrax, n. 2.