Anthrax

Noun

 * 1) An infectious disease caused by a kind of bacteria. It can cause a skin infection, or a severe digestive illness that resembles “food poisoning.” Another form of the disease – “inhalation” anthrax – results when some one breathes in the bacteria. Symptoms usually show up within seven days after exposure.
 * 2)  An acute infectious bacterial disease of herbivores, especially sheep and cattle. It can occur in humans through contact with infected animals, tissue from infected animals, or high concentrations of anthrax spores, but is not usually spread between humans. Symptoms include lesions on the skin or in the lungs, and it is often fatal.
 * 3) A non-contagious potentially fatal disease caused by breathing, eating or absorbing through cuts in the skin bacteria known as Bacillus anthracis.

Synonyms

 * splenic fever

Thesaurus
African lethargy; Asiatic cholera; Chagres fever; German measles; Haverhill fever; Minamata disease; Texas fever; acute articular rheumatism; ague; alkali disease; altitude sickness; amebiasis; amebic dysentery; anoxemia; anoxia; anoxic anoxia; aphthous fever; bacillary dysentery; bastard measles; bighead; black death; black fever; black lung; black quarter; blackleg; blackwater; blackwater fever; blind staggers; bloody flux; breakbone fever; broken wind; brucellosis; bubonic plague; cachectic fever; caisson disease; cattle plague; cerebral rheumatism; charbon; chicken pox; chilblain; cholera; cowpox; dandy fever; decompression sickness; deer fly fever; dengue; dengue fever; diphtheria; distemper; dumdum fever; dysentery; elephantiasis; encephalitis lethargica; enteric fever; erysipelas; famine fever; five-day fever; flu; foot-and-mouth disease; frambesia; frostbite; gapes; glanders; glandular fever; grippe; hansenosis; heaves; hepatitis; herpes; herpes simplex; herpes zoster; histoplasmosis; hog cholera; hoof-and-mouth disease; hookworm; hydrophobia; immersion foot; infantile paralysis; infectious mononucleosis; inflammatory rheumatism; influenza; itai; jail fever; jet lag; jungle rot; kala azar; kissing disease; lead poisoning; lepra; leprosy; leptospirosis; liver rot; loa loa; loaiasis; lockjaw; loco; loco disease; locoism; mad staggers; madness; malaria; malarial fever; malignant catarrh; malignant catarrhal fever; malignant pustule; mange; marsh fever; measles; megrims; meningitis; mercury poisoning; milzbrand; motion sickness; mumps; ornithosis; osteomyelitis; paratuberculosis; paratyphoid fever; parotitis; parrot fever; pertussis; pip; pneumoconiosis; pneumonia; polio; poliomyelitis; polyarthritis rheumatism; ponos; pseudotuberculosis; psittacosis; quarter evil; rabbit fever; rabies; radiation sickness; radionecrosis; rat-bite fever; red-out; relapsing fever; rheumatic fever; rickettsialpox; rinderpest; ringworm; rot; rubella; rubeola; scabies; scarlatina; scarlet fever; schistosomiasis; septic sore throat; sheep rot; shingles; sleeping sickness; sleepy sickness; smallpox; snail fever; splenic fever; spotted fever; staggers; strep throat; stringhalt; sunstroke; swamp fever; swine dysentery; tetanus; the bends; thrush; tinea; trench fever; trench foot; trench mouth; tuberculosis; tularemia; typhoid; typhoid fever; typhus; typhus fever; undulant fever; vaccinia; varicella; variola; venereal disease; viral dysentery; whooping cough; yaws; yellow fever; yellow jack; zona

Etymology
From ἄνθραξ:.