glanders
/glan-derz/US // ˈglæn dərz //UK // (ˈɡlændəz) //
鼻疽,鼻炎,鼻疽病,鼻疽病人
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Veterinary Pathology.
- : 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.
Examples
Glanders is sometimes transmitted from beasts to man, and it is almost always fatal in the human subject.
In 1894 the Comptroller was given power to appoint appraisers in cases of tuberculosis and glanders.
I should prefer to see all such 'removed' by the methods you men employ when brutes become afflicted with rabies and glanders.
On 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.
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