glandered

[glan-derd]

adjective

Veterinary Pathology.

1. affected with glanders.

Other Word Forms

• nonglandered adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of glandered¹

First recorded in 1660–70; glander(s) + -ed ³

Example Sentences

At the beginning of the present century this affection was very widely prevalent in Great Britain, the chronic cases being habitually worked in stage-coaches, but of recent years, when it has been made criminal to expose or use a glandered horse, the malady has to a great extent disappeared.

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So long as glandered horses were preserved for work, the then nearly ubiquitous germ attacked nearly all that were run down by chronic diseases; hence glanders was looked upon as the natural winding up of exhausting diseases in the horse, as tuberculosis was thought to be in the human subject.

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That it can be thus borne on the air is shown by the experiments of Viborg and Gerlach, who separately collected the particulate elements from the exhalations of glandered horses and successfully inoculated them.

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That the virus is not usually carried far on the air in a virulent form is attested by the many instances in which horses have stood for months in the same stable with a glandered animal without becoming infected.

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Viborg, Coleman, Hering, and Chauveau have communicated the disease by transfusion of blood from a glandered horse to a healthy one; hence every vascular organ must be liable to infect.

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