Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An acute, infectious, usually fatal viral disease of the central nervous system that is transmitted by the bite of infected animals and occurs in many mammals, including dogs, cats, raccoons, and bats.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An extremely fatal infectious disease of man and many other animals, with predominant nervous symptoms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
hydrophobia (b); canine madness.
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- noun pathology A
viral disease that causes acuteencephalitis in warm-blooded animals and people, characterised by abnormal behaviour such asexcitement ,aggressiveness , anddementia , followed byparalysis anddeath .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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If canine rabies is a fearful subject to contemplate, there is a sadder and deeper significance in _rabies humana_; in that awful madness of the human race which is marked by a thirst for blood and a rage for destruction.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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If canine rabies is a fearful subject to contemplate, there is a sadder and deeper significance in _rabies humana_; in that awful madness of the human race which is marked by a thirst for blood and a rage for destruction.
Our Hundred Days in Europe Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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But on the bright side, it's pretty uncommon to catch rabies from a bat flying in your house.
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Generally, when someone, particularly a child, gets rabies and no one can find the proximal cause, bats are assigned the blame -- even though, as this article said, the incubation period for rabies is up to a year and all sorts of animal contact occurred over that period of time.
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If you are interested in rabies look up some of the wolf attacks on communities in years past in Europe for some remarkable stories and absolute horror.
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Without post-exposure prophylaxis, rabies is fatal.
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If you are interested in rabies look up some of the wolf attacks on communities in years past in Europe for some remarkable stories and absolute horror.
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On the other hand, once symptoms have begun, rabies is a uniformly fatal disease.
Rabies Vaccine 2008
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While the incubation period for rabies is as long as six years in humans, it is only six months in a dog.
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"A dog rabies is very different from a skunk rabies virus," Rupprecht said.
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