glanders
a contagious disease chiefly of horses and mules but communicable to humans, caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas mallei and characterized by swellings beneath the jaw and a profuse mucous discharge from the nostrils.
Origin of glanders
1Other words from glanders
- glan·der·ous, adjective
- Compare farcy.
Words Nearby glanders
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How to use glanders in a sentence
glanders is sometimes transmitted from beasts to man, and it is almost always fatal in the human subject.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyIn 1894 the Comptroller was given power to appoint appraisers in cases of tuberculosis and glanders.
A Century in the Comptroller's Office, State of New York, 1797 to 1897 | James A. RobertsI should prefer to see all such 'removed' by the methods you men employ when brutes become afflicted with rabies and glanders.
A Speckled Bird | Augusta J. Evans WilsonOn potato these bacilli grow like those of glanders, forming a grayish-brown layer on the surface.
The difference between glanders and influenza or ordinary horse distemper, is so marked that a mistake is not easily made.
British Dictionary definitions for glanders
/ (ˈɡlændəz) /
(functioning as singular) a highly infectious bacterial disease of horses, sometimes transmitted to man, caused by Actinobacillus mallei and characterized by inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membranes of the air passages, skin, and lymph glands
Origin of glanders
1Derived forms of glanders
- glandered, adjective
- glanderous, adjective
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