anthrax
英 ['?nθr?ks]
美['?nθr?ks]
- n. 炭疽，炭疽熱
英英釋意
- 1. a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people
- 2. a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia
- 3. a species of Bacillus that causes anthrax in humans and in animals (cattle and swine and sheep and sheep and rabbits and mice and guinea pigs); can be used a bioweapon