'anthrax' definitions:
Definition of 'anthrax'
From: WordNet
noun
A highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people [syn: anthrax, splenic fever]
noun
A disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia
Definition of 'anthrax'
From: GCIDE
- malignant \ma*lig"nant\, a. [L. malignans, -antis, p. pr. of malignare, malignari, to do or make maliciously. See Malign, and cf. Benignant.]
- 1. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. [1913 Webster]
- A malignant and a turbaned Turk. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious. "Malignant care." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Some malignant power upon my life. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Something deleterious and malignant as his touch. --Hawthorne. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Med.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria. [1913 Webster]
- Malignant pustule (Med.), a very contagious disease produced by infection of subcutaneous tissues with the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. It is transmitted to man from animals and is characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the infection, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and often fatal. The disease in animals is called charbon; in man it is called cutaneous anthrax, and formerly was sometimes called simply anthrax. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Definition of 'anthrax'
From: GCIDE
- Carbuncle \Car"bun*cle\, n. [L. carbunculus a little coal, a bright kind of precious stone, a kind of tumor, dim. of carbo coal: cf. F. carboncle. See Carbon.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Min.) A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Med.) A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Her.) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'anthrax'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acute articular rheumatism,
- African lethargy,
- ague,
- alkali disease,
- altitude sickness,
- amebiasis,
- amebic dysentery,
- anoxemia,
- anoxia,
- anoxic anoxia,
- aphthous fever,
- Asiatic cholera,
- bacillary dysentery,
- bastard measles,
- bighead,
- black death,
- black fever,
- black lung,
- black quarter,
- blackleg,
- blackwater,
- blackwater fever,
- blind staggers,
- bloody flux,
- breakbone fever,
- broken wind,
- brucellosis,
- bubonic plague,
- cachectic fever,
- caisson disease,
- cattle plague,
- cerebral rheumatism,
- Chagres fever,
- charbon,
- chicken pox,
- chilblain,
- cholera,
- cowpox,
- dandy fever,
- decompression sickness,
- deer fly fever,
- dengue,
- dengue fever,
- diphtheria,
- distemper,
- dumdum fever,
- dysentery,
- elephantiasis,
- encephalitis lethargica,
- enteric fever,
- erysipelas,
- famine fever,
- five-day fever,
- flu,
- foot-and-mouth disease,
- frambesia,
- frostbite,
- gapes,
- German measles,
- glanders,
- glandular fever,
- grippe,
- hansenosis,
- Haverhill fever,
- heaves,
- hepatitis,
- herpes,
- herpes simplex,
- herpes zoster,
- histoplasmosis,
- hog cholera,
- hoof-and-mouth disease,
- hookworm,
- hydrophobia,
- immersion foot,
- infantile paralysis,
- infectious mononucleosis,
- inflammatory rheumatism,
- influenza,
- itai,
- jail fever,
- jet lag,
- jungle rot,
- kala azar,
- kissing disease,
- lead poisoning,
- lepra,
- leprosy,
- leptospirosis,
- liver rot,
- loa loa,
- loaiasis,
- lockjaw,
- loco,
- loco disease,
- locoism,
- mad staggers,
- madness,
- malaria,
- malarial fever,
- malignant catarrh,
- malignant catarrhal fever,
- malignant pustule,
- mange,
- marsh fever,
- measles,
- megrims,
- meningitis,
- mercury poisoning,
- milzbrand,
- Minamata disease,
- motion sickness,
- mumps,
- ornithosis,
- osteomyelitis,
- paratuberculosis,
- paratyphoid fever,
- parotitis,
- parrot fever,
- pertussis,
- pip,
- pneumoconiosis,
- pneumonia,
- polio,
- poliomyelitis,
- polyarthritis rheumatism,
- ponos,
- pseudotuberculosis,
- psittacosis,
- quarter evil,
- rabbit fever,
- rabies,
- radiation sickness,
- radionecrosis,
- rat-bite fever,
- red-out,
- relapsing fever,
- rheumatic fever,
- rickettsialpox,
- rinderpest,
- ringworm,
- rot,
- rubella,
- rubeola,
- scabies,
- scarlatina,
- scarlet fever,
- schistosomiasis,
- septic sore throat,
- sheep rot,
- shingles,
- sleeping sickness,
- sleepy sickness,
- smallpox,
- snail fever,
- splenic fever,
- spotted fever,
- staggers,
- strep throat,
- stringhalt,
- sunstroke,
- swamp fever,
- swine dysentery,
- tetanus,
- Texas fever,
- the bends,
- thrush,
- tinea,
- trench fever,
- trench foot,
- trench mouth,
- tuberculosis,
- tularemia,
- typhoid,
- typhoid fever,
- typhus,
- typhus fever,
- undulant fever,
- vaccinia,
- varicella,
- variola,
- venereal disease,
- viral dysentery,
- whooping cough,
- yaws,
- yellow fever,
- yellow jack,
- zona,
- zoster