anthrax
IPA: ˈænθræks
noun
- (pathology) An acute infectious disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle, caused by Bacillus anthracis.
- The human disease that can occur in humans through contact with infected herbivores, tissue from infected animals, or high concentrations of anthrax spores, but is not usually spread between humans, with symptoms including lesions on the skin or in the lungs, often fatal.
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Examples of "anthrax" in Sentences
- Anthrax emergency response cleanup.
- It's not anthrax, it's not smallpox.
- Recognition and treatment of anthrax.
- The source of the anthrax is unknown.
- Anthrax toxin assembly and translocation.
- It initially tested positive for anthrax.
- Eleven of the cases were the deadly inhalation type of anthrax.
- Anthrax vaccines are vaccines against the infectious disease anthrax.
- If John Bush has indeed left Anthrax, then it's a sad loss for Anthrax.
- Adults are potential vectors of tularemia, anthrax and loa loa filariasis.
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