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glanders

glan·ders

uncommon

noun

1.

a destructive and contagious bacterial disease of horses that can be transmitted to humans

Origin

From Middle English glandres, glaundres, from Old French glandres, plural of Old French glandre, from Latin glandula. Doublet of glandule.

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