glanders

[ glan-derz ]

/ ˈglæn dərz /

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noun (used with a singular verb)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.

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Origin of glanders

1475–85; <Middle French glandres swollen glands <Latin glandulae swollen glands, literally, little acorns. See gland¹, -ule

OTHER WORDS FROM glanders

glan·der·ous, adjective

Words nearby glanders

glanceable, glancing, glancing angle, gland, glandered, glanders, glandilemma, gland of auditory tube, gland of Moll, glands, glandula

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How to use glanders in a sentence

Glanders is sometimes transmitted from beasts to man, and it is almost always fatal in the human subject.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
In 1894 the Comptroller was given power to appoint appraisers in cases of tuberculosis and glanders.
A Century in the Comptroller's Office, State of New York, 1797 to 1897|James A. Roberts
I should prefer to see all such 'removed' by the methods you men employ when brutes become afflicted with rabies and glanders.
A Speckled Bird|Augusta J. Evans Wilson
On potato these bacilli grow like those of glanders, forming a grayish-brown layer on the surface.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 467, December 13, 1884|Various

The difference between glanders and influenza or ordinary horse distemper, is so marked that a mistake is not easily made.
The Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56, No. 2, January 12, 1884|Various

British Dictionary definitions for glanders

glanders

/ (ˈɡlændəz) /

noun

(functioning as singular) a highly infectious bacterial disease of horses, sometimes transmitted to man, caused by Actinobacillus mallei and characterized by inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membranes of the air passages, skin, and lymph glands

Derived forms of glanders

glandered, adjectiveglanderous, adjective

Word Origin for glanders

C16: from Old French glandres enlarged glands, from Latin glandulae, literally: little acorns, from glāns acorn; see gland 1

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