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anthrax

/an-thraks/US // ˈæn θræks //UK // (ˈænθræks) //

炭疽,炭疽病,炭疽病毒,炭疽病人

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural an·thra·ces [an-thruh-seez]. /ˈæn θrəˌsiz/. Pathology.

    • : an infectious, often fatal disease of cattle, sheep, and other mammals, caused by Bacillus anthracis, transmitted to humans by contaminated wool, raw meat, or other animal products.
    • : a malignant carbuncle that is the diagnostic lesion of anthrax disease in humans.

Examples

  • It will be focused on chemicals, and not biological agents like anthrax, nor radiological or nuclear concerns.

  • If anthrax were to blame, other animals would have been affected, but they were not.

  • The nomads’ cattle would be immunized against brucellosis and anthrax bacterial infections.

  • A military vaccine for inhalation anthrax—impossible to test because hardly anyone gets that disease—was cleared in that way.

  • The only other vaccine that has ever received an EUA was an anthrax vaccine, but it’s not a useful comparison because the vaccine was already in use and the 2005 authorization was granted to allow the US.

  • The son is reportedly part of a new generation of young drug lords who called themselves “the Anthrax Group.”

  • Where better to test cultures of anthrax, typhoid, plague and tularemia than on an island in a sea in the middle of the desert?

  • As a result of the small size of the spores, anthrax is virtually impossible to see, smell, or taste.

  • News that 75 government scientists had been exposed to anthrax in Atlanta sent shivers up the spine of the science world Thursday.

  • Anthrax could be released in a city, quietly, without anyone knowing,” the narrator says.

  • Around it I find only some scanty relics of its meals, consisting chiefly of Anthrax-wings, half-diaphanous and half-clouded.

  • Plague, anthrax, yellow fever, cannot exist in one country without harm to all.

  • Pick off any colonies resembling those of anthrax and subcultivate on all the ordinary laboratory media.

  • It has been suggested that the horse flies carry anthrax, and their bites sometimes cause malignant pustules.

  • A similar structure exists in the other species of Anthrax with slight variations of detail.