glanderous
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a word derived from
glanders.
glandersnouna 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.
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The liver is enlarged, softened, and may be the seat of glanderous processes, with ulcers in the bile-duct or gall-bladder.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Indeed, the tendency in man to the formation of considerable glanderous neoplasms is much less than in the solipede.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The autopsy showed the existence of a number of old glanderous nodules in the lungs which must have existed previous to purchase, more than a year before.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
In 1882, Chauveau had demonstrated the particulate nature of the glander germ by his unsuccessful inoculations with the liquids filtered from dilutions of pus taken from a pulmonary glanderous ulcer.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Chronic cutaneous glanders, chronic farcy, usually begins by a local swelling, mostly of the fetlock, in the midst of which a careful examination detects a small glanderous nodule.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various