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glandered

[ glan-derd ]

adjective

, Veterinary Pathology.
  1. affected with glanders.


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Other Words From

  • non·glandered adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of glandered1

First recorded in 1660–70; glander(s) + -ed 3
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Example Sentences

The virulent matter used for starting the culture was procured from a pulmonary deposit and spleen of a glandered horse; the cultivation was continued through eight successive culture-fluids.

So long as glandered horses were preserved for work, the then nearly ubiquitous germ attacked nearly all that were run down by chronic diseases; hence glanders was looked upon as the natural winding up of exhausting diseases in the horse, as tuberculosis was thought to be in the human subject.

Inoculation of a cat with this fifth culture, started originally from a nasal ulcer of a glandered horse, led to a fatal result in twenty-five days, with suppurating tumor of the left testicle and inguinal glands.

That it can be thus borne on the air is shown by the experiments of Viborg and Gerlach, who separately collected the particulate elements from the exhalations of glandered horses and successfully inoculated them.

That the virus is not usually carried far on the air in a virulent form is attested by the many instances in which horses have stood for months in the same stable with a glandered animal without becoming infected.

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