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Viral disease
Answer for the clue "Viral disease ", 6 letters:
rabies
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Word definitions for rabies in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 [syn: hydrophobia , lyssa , madness ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Latin rabies "madness, rage, fury," related to rabere "be mad, rave" (see rage (v.)). Sense of "extremely fatal infectious disease causing madness in dogs" was a secondary meaning in Latin. Known hydrophobia in humans.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rabies , or hydrophobia, is a disease characterized by inflammation of the brain. Rabies may also refer to: Rabies virus , the type species of the Lyssavirus viral genus
Usage examples of rabies.
And from looking at the flight schedule, Fastball had seen that Rabies Grill was in the cockpit of the tanker.
Government Circuit House in Junagadh, the rabies vaccine and the vial of immune globulin, which Dr Daruwalla had forgotten, remained in the lobby refrigerator.
Their only knowledge that there was such a thing as the microbe of rabies was the convulsive death of the rabbits they injected, and the fearful cries of their trephined dogs.
It was as though, in the special neuropathology of rabies, the switch had been prevented from turning.
I was settin pins in a bowfin alley in Ardmore Oklahoma and I got dogbit by a bulldog took a chunk out of my leg the size of a Sunday roast and it got infected and the man I worked for carried me down to the doctor and they thought I had rabies or somethin and all hell busted loose and I got shipped back to Uvalde County.
Pasteur and Roux and Chamberland had a sure way, that worked one hundred times out of one hundred, of giving rabies to their dogs and guinea-pigs and rabbits.
A ground squirrel chattered angrily at her, and she sat staring at it, thinking of rabies and Hantavirus and too tired to even throw a well-chewed pine cone at it.
About five thousand types of virus are known, and between them they afflict us with many hundreds of diseases, ranging from the flu and common cold to those that are most invidious to human well-being: smallpox, rabies, yellow fever, ebola, polio, and the human immunodeficiency virus, the source of AIDS.
The furniture -- armchairs, a low sofa, small rabies -- looked as though it had been cast in glass, and inside the semitransparent material swarms of fireflies circulated freely, sometimes dispersed, then joined again into streams, so that a luminous blood seemed to course within the furniture, pale green with pink sparks mixed in.
They scream and yipe and howl, leap on the guests like bitch dogs in heat with rabies.
The following year a lab was added for zoonoses, diseases that are animal ailments but that can be transmitted to man, like plague, rabies and anthrax.
The rules had been made some ten years before, when an urban rabies scare had started City Hall on a vast antipet drive.
One of the things that our corpsmen and doctors had passed on to us to watch out for dogs and animals, because of rabies, eating the dead.
Lavinia Greenslade’s grey was barging about like a dodgem car with rabies.
The fleeing animal, free of the rabies, but crazed with fright, whipped Bettles off his feet and flashed on up the street.