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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. 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.