glanders

[ glan-derz ]

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

1. 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.

glanders

/ ˈɡlændəz /

noun

1. 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

• ˈglanderous, adjective
• ˈglandered, adjective

Other Words From

• glander·ous adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of glanders¹

1475–85; < Middle French glandres swollen glands < Latin glandulae swollen glands, literally, little acorns. See gland ¹, -ule

Word History and Origins

Origin of glanders¹

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

Example Sentences

Glanders is sometimes transmitted from beasts to man, and it is almost always fatal in the human subject.

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In 1894 the Comptroller was given power to appoint appraisers in cases of tuberculosis and glanders.

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I should prefer to see all such 'removed' by the methods you men employ when brutes become afflicted with rabies and glanders.

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On potato these bacilli grow like those of glanders, forming a grayish-brown layer on the surface.

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The difference between glanders and influenza or ordinary horse distemper, is so marked that a mistake is not easily made.

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