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anthrax

an.thrax \'an-.thraks\ n [ME antrax carbuncle, fr. L anthrax, fr. Gk, coal, 
   carbuncle] : an infectious disease of warm-blooded animals (as cattle and 
   sheep) caus ed by a spore-forming bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), found 
   transmissible to man esp. by the handling of infected products (as hair), 
   and characterized by external ulcerating nodules or by lesions in the lungs