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noun a highly infectious animal disease (especially cattle and sheep); it can be transmitted to people
noun a disease of humans that is not communicable; caused by infection with Bacillus anthracis followed by septicemia
originFrom Ancient Greek ἄνθραξ (ánthrax, “abscess, boil”).
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