Hypertext Webster Gateway: "glanders"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Glanders \Glan"ders\, n. [From {Gland}.] (Far.)
A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses,
asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of
sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and
induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It
may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
glanders
n : a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses
that can be transmitted to humans
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