Glanders

Definition: Glanders

Glanders

Noun

1. A destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans.

Date "glanders" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1593. (references)

Note: Glanders \Glan"ders\, noun. [From Gland.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	A specific, contagious, and inoculable disease of the horse family(equidae), but also liable to be contracted by other mammals, including man; it is due to the entrance and growth in the body of the glanders bacillus Pseudomonas(Actinobacillus)mallei(formerly known as Pfeifferella mallei)and is characterised by the formation of nodules in the lungs, liver, spleen, or other organs; ulcerations of the mucous membranes, especially those of the upper air passages, accompanied by changes in the lymphatics and also by skin lesions. Although nasal, pulmonary, and cutaneous("farcy")forms of glanders are recognized, more than one form may affect the animal simultaneously. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	A contagious disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans. It is caused by Pseudomonas mallei and characterized by ulceration of the respiratory mucosa and an eruption of nodules on the skin. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Disease	Anthrax, bighead; blackleg, blackquarter; cattle plague, glanders, mange, scrapie, milk sickness; heartworm, feline leukemia, roundworms; quarter-evil, quarter-ill; rinderpest.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Glanders

English words defined with "glanders": Equinia ♦ Farcy ♦ Glandered, Glanderous. (references)

Specialty definitions using "glanders": African glanders ♦ epizootic lymphangitis ♦ Histoplasma farciminosum infection ♦ Japanese farcy ♦ Lymphangitis epizootica ♦ Melioidosis ♦ Neapolitan farcy ♦ pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders. (references)

Domain	Title
References	The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Glanders (reference) (more reference examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		There is no vaccine available for glanders. (references)
		The symptoms of glanders depend upon the route of infection with the organism. (references)
		Glanders is an infectious disease that is caused by the bacterium Burkholderia mallei. (references)
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"Glanders" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Glanders" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	90%	9	117,287
Noun (proper)	10%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

Expression using "glanders": African glanders. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "glanders"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kërrnjotë. (various references)

Arabic		‏الرعام مرض. (various references)

Bulgarian		сап (farcy, helve). (various references)

Czech		vozhřivka. (various references)

Danish		snive (farcy, Pseudomonas mallei infection). (various references)

Dutch		malleus (farcy, hammer, Pseudomonas mallei infection), kwade droes (farcy, Pseudomonas mallei infection), kwaadaardige droes (farcy, Pseudomonas mallei infection). (various references)

Finnish		epitsoottinen lymfangiitti (African glanders, epizootic lymphangitis, Histoplasma farciminosum infection, Japanese farcy, Lymphangitis epizootica, Neapolitan farcy, pseudofarcy, pseudoglanders). (various references)

French		morve. (various references)

German		rotz (farcy, Pseudomonas mallei infection, snot, soft rot). (various references)

Greek		βλέννα των άλογων, μάλις (farcy, Pseudomonas mallei infection). (various references)

Hebrew		� חרת. (various references)

Hungarian		takonykór (distemper, farcy, strangles). (various references)

Italian		morva (farcy, Pseudomonas mallei infection), infezione morvosa (farcy, Pseudomonas mallei infection), farcino (farcy, Pseudomonas mallei infection), cimurro (canine distemper, canine plague, Carre's disease, catarrhal fever of dog, distemper). (various references)

Manx		trelleen (farcy). (various references)

Pig Latin		andersglay

Portuguese		mormo (farcy, Pseudomonas mallei infection). (various references)

Romanian		rãpciugã (distemper). (various references)

Russian		сап (farcy). (various references)

Scottish		fothach (the glanders in horses). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		sakagija. (various references)

Spanish		muermo (farcy, Pseudomonas mallei infection). (various references)

Swedish		rots. (various references)

Turkish		sakağı, ruam. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	malleus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Words rhyming with "glanders" (pronounced 'Glan"ders'): Flinders, Wonders. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: danglers.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-l-n-r-s"
	-1 letter: anglers, dangers, dangler, dangles, darnels, ganders, gardens, glandes, gnarled, lagends, landers, slander, slanged, snarled.
	-2 letters: alders, angels, angers, angled, angler, angles, argled, argles, danger, dangle, darnel, denars, elands, gander, garden, glades, glands, glared, glares, gleans, gnarls, grades, grands, ladens, laders, lagend, lagers, lander, larges, learns, naleds, ranged, ranges, redans, regnal, sander, sanger.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-l-n-r-s"
	+1 letter: draglines, strangled.
	+2 letters: cradlesong, engarlands, gardenfuls, girandoles, rangelands, resaddling, sanderling, slandering.
	+3 letters: cradlesongs, dangerously, darlingness, dragonflies, generalised, goaltenders, gradualness, grainfields, grandiosely, granduncles, highlanders, ladyfingers, laggardness, lipreadings, quadrangles, ringleaders, sanderlings, sloganeered, underglazes.
	+4 letters: decreasingly, descrambling, despairingly, digressional, frankpledges, laryngitides, legerdemains, plantigrades, redisplaying, singularized, sluggardness, stranglehold, strangulated, stringhalted.
	+5 letters: battlegrounds, childbearings, darlingnesses, deflagrations, degringolades, deregulations, desacralizing, doppelgangers, gelandesprung, glucuronidase, gradualnesses, laggardnesses, nearsightedly, niggardliness, regardfulness, relandscaping, scandalmonger, semilegendary, strangleholds.
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