[ˈanθraks], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a serious bacterial disease of sheep and cattle, causing acute and often fatal septicaemia, and also transmissible to humans


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Origin:
late Middle English: Latin, ‘carbuncle’ (the earliest sense in English), from Greek anthrax, anthrak- ‘coal, carbuncle’, with reference to the skin ulceration in humans