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"Anthrax" Definition

noun

A lesion caused by anthrax.
An infectious, usually fatal disease of warm-blooded animals, especially of cattle and sheep, caused by the bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The disease can be transmitted to humans through contact with contaminated animal substances, such as hair, feces, or hides, and is characterized by ulcerative skin lesions.
An infectious disease of warm-blooded animals (as cattle and sheep) caused by a spore-forming bacterium (), transmissible to humans especially by the handling of infected products (as wool), and characterized by cutaneous ulcerating nodules or by often fatal lesions in the lungs.
The bacterium causing anthrax.

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