Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling or of the nature of anthrax.
  • Resembling the precious stone carbuncle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Biol.) Resembling anthrax in action; of the nature of anthrax.

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  • adjective biology Resembling anthrax.

Etymologies

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anthrax +‎ -oid

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Examples

  • The parasitic nature of charbon was therefore absolutely demonstrated, first, by the constant presence of _Bacillus anthracis_ in the blood of anthracoid animals, and second, by the pure culture of the parasite and the inoculation of animals with charbon by means of it.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884 Various

  • Summarizing -- it appears from the preceding facts that it is possible to produce at will, purulent infections with no elements of putrescence, putrescent purulent infections, anthracoid purulent infections, and finally combinations of these types of lesions varying according to the proportions of the mixtures of the specific organisms made to act on the living tissues.

    The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

  • By a similar procedure the effects of the anthrax bacteridium and the microbe of pus may be combined and the two diseases may be superposed, so as to obtain a purulent anthrax or an anthracoid purulent infection.

    The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology) Various

  • By a similar procedure the effects of the anthrax bacteridium and the microbe of pus may be combined and the two diseases may be superposed, so as to obtain a purulent anthrax or an anthracoid purulent infection.

    The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery 1909

  • Summarizing—it appears from the preceding facts that it is possible to produce at will, purulent infections with no elements of putrescence, putrescent purulent infections, anthracoid purulent infections, and finally combinations of these types of lesions varying according to the proportions of the mixtures of the specific organisms made to act on the living tissues.

    The Germ Theory and Its Applications to Medicine and Surgery 1909

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