anthrax
noun /ˈænθræks/
/ˈænθræks/
[uncountable]- a serious disease that affects sheep and cows and sometimes people, and can cause deathTopics Illnessc2Word Originlate Middle English: Latin, ‘carbuncle’, swelling under the skin (the earliest sense in English), from Greek anthrax, anthrak- ‘coal, carbuncle’, with reference to the skin ulceration in humans.