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Definition of Rabies

1. Noun. An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain.

Definition of Rabies

1. n. Same as Hydrophobia (b); canine madness.

Definition of Rabies

1. Noun. (pathology) A viral disease that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rabies

1. an infectious virus disease [n RABIES] : RABIETIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Rabies

1. Same as Hydrophobia; canine madness. Origin: L. See Rage. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rabies

Literary usage of Rabies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1862)
"In the immense majority of cases rabies is propagated by the bite of the mad animal, although sometimes it appears to have been transmitted by licking the ..."

2. Pathogenic microörganisms: A Practical Manual for Students, Physicians, and by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams, Charles Krumwiede (1920)
"Within the gray nervous tissue of rabid animals are peculiar protozoon-like structures known as "Negri bodies" which are diagnostic of rabies. ..."

3. Pathogenic Micro-organisms: Including Bacteria and Protozoa; a Practical by William Hallock Park, Anna Wessels Williams (1910)
"rabies (synonyms: Hydrophobia, Lyssa, Hunds- wuth, Rage) is an acute infectious disease of mammals, dependent upon a specific virus, and communicated to ..."

4. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"THE QUININ TREATMENT OF rabies* JAMES GORDON GUMMING (From the Pasteur Institute of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan. ..."

5. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion & Disease Prevention by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"20.12 Reduce postexposure rabies treatments to no more than 9000 per year. (Baseline: 18000 estimated treatments in 1987) Baseline data source: Center for ..."

6. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"rabies in cats is comparatively rare. Cattle, sheep, and goats are infected ... Although all mammals are susceptible to rabies, it is perpetuated in ..."

7. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau, George Chandler Whipple, John William Trask, Thomas William Salmon (1916)
"rabies in cats is comparatively rare. Cattle, sheep, and goats are infected ... Although all mammals arc susceptible to rabies, it is perpetuated in ..."

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