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glanders
[ glan-derz ]
noun
- 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
/ ˈɡ±ôæ²Ô»åÉ™³ú /
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
- ˈ²µ±ô²¹²Ô»å±ð°ù´Ç³Ü²õ, adjective
- ˈ²µ±ô²¹²Ô»å±ð°ù±ð»å, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ²µ±ô²¹²Ôd±ð°ù·´Ç³Ü²õ adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of glanders1
Example Sentences
The local administrator’s office said the horses on Buyukada Island were slaughtered after being diagnosed with glanders disease, which also affects donkeys and mules.
Highly contagious and incurable, glanders has prompted Brazilian agricultural officials to destroy hundreds of horses across the country over the past couple of years in an effort to stop the epidemic.
Coming into contact with glanders could prove fatal.
Earlier this year cases of glanders, a lethal highly contagious bacterial infection, were diagnosed in a few horses stabled at a military facility near the site of the 2016 Olympic equestrian competitions.
The country is still subject to diseases affecting horses, including glanders, a lethal bacterial infection recently diagnosed in several horses here.
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