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rabies |
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rabies
(ˈreɪbɪiːz, now usu. ˈreɪbiːz, -ɪz)
[a. L. rabiēs, f. rabĕre to rage, rave. Cf. rage.]
Canine madness; hydrophobia: a contagious virus disease of dogs and other warm-blooded animals, which produces paralysis or a vicious excitability and in man causes a fatal encephalitis with throat spasm upon swallowing and convulsions. Also fig.
1598J. Florio Worlde of Wordes 307/2 Rabbino, Rabi, Rabis, the Rabbies. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 333 The rabies, which is a madnesse, caused by some peculiar poyson. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v. Madness, Dr. James relates the cure be made of dogs that were mad, and how he preserved others from the rabies. 1828Lytton Pelham I. xx. 152 Finding Lord Vincent so disposed to the biting mood, I immediately directed his rabies towards Mr. Aberton. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 284 Whenever rabies appears it is inevitably fatal. 1884Graphic 22 Nov. 531/2 The alleged epidemic of rabies in South London. 1967Swain & Dodds Clinical Virol. xiii. 184 Eradication of rabies can be achieved only when the total elimination of the reservoir of animal infection is possible. It has been achieved in Great Britain by rigid quarantine laws which govern the importation of all livestock. 1977D. A. Warrell in C. Kaplan Rabies: the Facts iii. 32 In man the disease called rabies is a severe inflammation of the brain and spinal cord..associated with invasion of these tissues by rabies virus. 1980Sci. Amer. Jan. 109/1 Fox rabies is particularly serious in Europe, where the disease has spread steadily at the rate of about 30 kilometers per year from east to west since World War II.
attrib.1886Pall Mall G. 17 Nov. 5/1 The mad dog with his rabies virus. 1887British Med. Jrnl. 8 Jan. 82/2 A discussion on Pasteur's rabies-inoculations. 1976Daily Tel. 20 July 3/3 A 32-year-old teacher, fined {pstlg}300 at Uxbridge for contravening the rabies regulations had the penalty reduced on appeal to {pstlg}100 yesterday. 1976T. Heald Let Sleeping Dogs Die ii. 30 ‘But surely he got an injection?’ ‘Not even anti-tetanus. Let alone a rabies jab. It was only a little bite.’
Hence rabiˈetic a., affected with rabies, rabid; raˈbific a., causing rabies.
1879Dolan Rabies or Hydrophobia (ed. 2) 213 The total extinction of the rabific contagion. 1886Encyl. Brit. XX. 202 Rabific virus..obtained from a rabbit. |
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