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n. An acute, infectious, often fatal viral disease of most warm-blooded animals, especially wolves, cats, and dogs, that attacks the central nervous system and is transmitted by the bite of infected animals.

n. 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.

n. Same as hydrophobia (b); canine madness.

n. An extremely fatal infectious disease of man and many other animals, with predominant nervous symptoms.

n. 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

"If canine rabies is a fearful subject to contemplate, there is a sadder and deeper significance in _rabies humana_; in that awful madness of the human race which is marked by a thirst for blood and a rage for destruction."

zoonosis    zoonotic disease   

dumb rabies   

hydrophobia   

rabietic    rabid   

madness    hydrophobia   

babies   

dna-based    pneumococcal    tumour-cell    whole-cell    toand    proteanic    immunogenic    toxoid    papilloma    `b'