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Bacillus anthracis
(gcide) | malignant \ma*lig"nant\, a. [L. malignans, -antis, p. pr. of
malignare, malignari, to do or make maliciously. See
Malign, and cf. Benignant.]
1. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress;
actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently
inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
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A malignant and a turbaned Turk. --Shak.
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2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
"Malignant care." --Macaulay.
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Some malignant power upon my life. --Shak.
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Something deleterious and malignant as his touch.
--Hawthorne.
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3. (Med.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal
issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.
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Malignant pustule (Med.), a very contagious disease
produced by infection of subcutaneous tissues with the
bacterium Bacillus anthracis. It is transmitted to man
from animals and is characterized by the formation, at the
point of reception of the infection, of a vesicle or
pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an
unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and
often fatal. The disease in animals is called charbon;
in man it is called cutaneous anthrax, and formerly was
sometimes called simply anthrax.
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Bacillus anthracis
(gcide) | Anthrax \An"thrax\ ([a^]n"thr[a^]ks), n. [L., fr. Gr. 'a`nqrax
coal, carbuncle.]
1. (Med.)
(a) A carbuncle.
(b) A malignant pustule.
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2. (Biol.) A microscopic, bacterial organism ({Bacillus
anthracis}), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust.
under Bacillus.]
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3. An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed
to the presence of a rod-shaped gram-positive bacterium
(Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the
contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by
inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and
filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.
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Bacillus anthracis
(gcide) | Anthrax vaccine \An"thrax vac"cine\ (Veter.)
A fluid vaccine obtained by growing a bacterium ({Bacillus
anthracis}, formerly Bacterium anthracis) in beef broth. It
is used to immunize animals, esp. cattle.
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bacillus anthracis
(wn) | Bacillus anthracis
n 1: a species of bacillus that causes anthrax in humans and in
animals (cattle and swine and sheep and rabbits and mice
and guinea pigs); can be used a bioweapon [syn: {Bacillus
anthracis}, anthrax bacillus] |
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bacillus anthracis
(wn) | Bacillus anthracis
n 1: a species of bacillus that causes anthrax in humans and in
animals (cattle and swine and sheep and rabbits and mice
and guinea pigs); can be used a bioweapon [syn: {Bacillus
anthracis}, anthrax bacillus] |
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