rabies

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

An infectious disease caused by species of Lyssavirus that causes acute encephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such as biting, excitement, aggressiveness, and dementia, followed by paralysis and death.

/ˈɹeɪ.biːz/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-rabies.wav

rabies

Learned borrowing from Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”). Doublet of rage.

Arctic dog disease hydrophobia lyssa

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