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

Closely allied to this is infection by inhaling the exhalations of glandered horses, and this doubtless accounts for some few cases which have been recorded as communicated through the unbroken skin.

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Among the mediate forms of contagion may be named drinking from the same pail or trough after a glandered horse, using a knife that has been employed to open a glanderous abscess, wiping a wound with an infected blanket or handkerchief, handling infected harness, wagon-pole, or manger with wounded hands, sleeping over glandered horses or in a stall or on litter previously used by such horses.

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PREVENTION.—The glandered horses and all animals attacked with acute or obstinate farcy should be destroyed and their bodies be burned or deeply buried.

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No less imperative should be the perfect disinfection of all stables, harness, and other objects with which glandered animals have come in contact.

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Fortunately, the susceptibility of man is slight, but few out of the multitudes handling glandered horses becoming infected.

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