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A carbuncle.

A fluid vaccine obtained by growing a bacterium (Bacterium anthracis) in beef broth. It is used to immunize animals, esp. cattle.

A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.

Wood coal, or charcoal; -- so called in distinction from mineral coal.

Of or relating to anthrax; as, anthracic blood.

Resembling anthrax in action; of the nature of anthrax; as, an anthracoid microbe.

A beautiful gem of a deep red color (with a mixture of scarlet) called by the Greeks anthrax; found in the East Indies. When held up to the sun, it loses its deep tinge, and becomes of the color of burning coal. The name belongs for the most part to ruby sapphire, though it has been also given to red spinel and garnet.…

germ (Biol.), a name applied to certain tiny bacterial organisms or their spores, such as Anthrax bacillus and the Micrococcus of fowl cholera, which have been demonstrated to be the cause of certain diseases. See Germ theory (bellow). -- Germ cell (Biol.), the germ, egg, spore, or cell from which the plant or animal…

by profound exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also charbon, and sometimes, improperly, anthrax.

aining to the spleen; lienal; as, the splenic vein. Splenic apoplexy or fever. (Med.) See Anthrax, n., 3.