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Meanings of malignant pustule in English
A form of anthrax infection that begins as papule that becomes a vesicle and breaks with a discharge of toxins; symptoms of septicemia are severe with vomiting and high fever and profuse sweating; the infection is often fatal.
For example, an animal inoculated with erysipelas germs cannot be successfully inoculated immediately afterward with the germs of malignantpustule.
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External anthrax, malignantpustule.
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The most typical example of this sort is anthrax or malignantpustule, a disease fortunately rare in man (Fig.
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Review for October, 1845, and January, 1847.-Affectionof the arm, resembling malignantpustule, after removing the placenta of a patient who died from puerperal fever.