RABIES
\ɹˈe͡ɪbɪz], \ɹˈeɪbɪz], \ɹ_ˈeɪ_b_ɪ_z]\
Definitions of RABIES
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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An acute infectious disease of the central nervous system affecting almost all mammals, including humans. It is caused by a rhabdovirus and usually spread by contamination with virus-laden saliva of bites inflicted by rabid animals. Important animal vectors include the dog, cat, vampire bat, mongoose, skunk, wolf, raccoon, and fox. (From Dorland, 27th ed)
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Hydrophobia of dumb brutes.
By William R. Warner
By Daniel Lyons
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An extremely fatal infectious disease, occurring among members of the canine family, communicable to man and other animals by inoculation, as by the bite of a rabid animal; popularly called hydrophobia.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The hydrophobia of animals.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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