Glanders

Word GLANDERS
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Hyphenation glan ders
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Definitions and meanings of "Glanders"

What do we mean by glanders?

A contagious, usually fatal disease of horses and other equids, caused by the bacterium Burkholderia mallei and characterized by swollen lymph nodes, nasal discharge, and ulcers of the respiratory tract and skin. The disease is communicable to other mammals, including humans. noun

A form of equinia characterized by a severe affection of the mucous membrane of the nose and by a profuse discharge from it. See equinia. noun

A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings. noun

An infectious disease of horses, mules and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans. noun

A destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans noun

An infectious disease of horses, mules and donkeys caused by the bacterium Burkholderia, one species of which may be transmitted to humans.

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The word "glanders" in example sentences

The term glanders applies to the disease in both forms, while the term farcy is limited to the visible appearance of external trouble only; but in the latter case internal lesions always exist, although they may not be evident. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

With the exception of the rare disease known as glanders, the horse is not believed to be directly responsible for any of the maladies from which the human being suffers, but it is well established that fully ❋ Unknown (1896)

Public watering troughs and the feed boxes of boarding stables and the tavern stables of market towns are among the most common recipients for the virus of glanders, which is most dangerous in its fresh state, but cases have been known to be caused by feeding animals in the box or stall in which glandered animals had stood several months before. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

And it has been shown to be true of some of the most destructive diseases which infect animals, such diseases as the sheep pox, such diseases as that most terrible and destructive disorder of horses, glanders, that in these, also, the active power is the living solid particle, and that the inert part is the fluid. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ebola/marburg ergotism erysipelas glanders influenza influenza complicated by Guillian Barre syndrome or toxic shock syndrome ❋ Unknown (2006)

During the past few months the city papers have referred to St. Vincent as the leprosy town, Hallock was referred to as the pauper district; we have been advertised as the refuge of tramps and quarantined on account of glanders*; but last of all and worst of all Bro, W-- --- has commenced pelting us with poetry, and SUCH poetry! ❋ Trish Short Lewis (2006)

Don't go giving me some kinda awful cow disease like anthrax or glanders or aftosa.... ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

The spread of shame on her face was such, when she saw her own misunderstanding, that I was ashamed to look at her; and occupied myself with drawing all the risk of glanders forth from the white limb, hanging helpless now, and left entirely to my will. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Going into the inn-yard I had a great deal of learned discourse with an old ostler about the glanders in horses. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Probably no more'n a newt with glanders, but straightaway you lot bawl 'Dragon!' and off for help you run. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1991)

He could sell one of the mules that would arrive tomorrow, claim it died of glanders or God knows what, and see if anyone dared question, him. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1985)

So several pathogenic bacteria had been discovered by 1880: those of anthrax and relapsing fever; other germs, such as those causing tuberculosis, glanders, pneumonia, typhoid fever, diphtheria, tetanus, Asiatic cholera, traumatic fevers, etc. were discovered one after another during the years 1880-90. ❋ Unknown (1967)

This does not necessarily imply the actual touching of the animals themselves; for it may be communicated from the poison left in the trough, or other places where the diseased animal has been brought in contact with some object, as is often the case in glanders in the horse; the matter discharged from the nose, and left upon the manger, readily communicating that disease to healthy animals coming in contact with it. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)

Handling glanders was almost as dangerous as either the bullets or the rattlesnakes. ❋ R.G. MacBeth (N/A)

Specific infectious forms of lymphangitis are seen in glanders and in strangles; infectious types of this disturbance are found in many instances where, initially, a localized or circumscribed infection has occurred -- the contagium having been introduced by way of an injury. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

Excluding glanders, in the majority of instances, lymphangitis in the horse, such as frequently affects the hind legs, is due to the local introduction of infectious material into the tissues as a result of wounds. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

Septicaemia, tuberculosis, glanders, fowl-cholera, relapsing fever, and other diseases are now brought definitely within the range of biology, and it is clear that all contagious and infectious diseases are due to the action of bacteria or, in a few cases, to fungi, or to protozoa or other animals. ❋ Various (N/A)

On potato these bacilli grow like those of glanders, forming a grayish-brown layer on the surface. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is that in cattle which glanders and farcy are in the horse, -- the breaking up of the constitution. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)

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