anthrax
an·thrax
noun \ˈan-ˌthraks\Definition of ANTHRAX
: an infectious disease of warm-blooded animals (as cattle and sheep) caused by a spore-forming bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), transmissible to humans especially by the handling of infected products (as wool), and characterized by cutaneous ulcerating nodules or by often fatal lesions in the lungs; also : the bacterium causing anthrax
Origin of ANTHRAX
Middle English antrax carbuncle, from Latin anthrax, from Greek, coal, carbuncle
First Known Use: 1861
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