anthraxnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈæn.θræks/us/ˈæn.θræks/a disease that causes fever, swelling, and often death in animals, especially sheep and cattle (= male and female cows), and can be passed on to humans
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Zoology: veterinary medicine
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- collar
- delouse
- destroy
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- foot-and-mouth
- froth
- geld
- hoof-and-mouth
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- myxomatosis
- put sth down 1
- quarantine
- rabid
- rabies
- vet
- veterinarian
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Examples from literature
- It is worth while to devote some attention to the disease anthrax.
- The occupation of the patient may suggest the possibility of anthrax infection.
- The organisms are found in enormous numbers throughout the bodies of animals that have died of anthrax, and are readily recognised and cultivated.
- They say it was fuzz instead of the exciting organism of anthrax that I examined in a dye and wrote about.
- Tuberculosis, tetanus, anthrax, and many other surgical diseases are due to different forms of bacilli.