rabies
pronunciation
How to pronounce rabies in British English:
UK [ˈreɪbi:z]
How to pronounce rabies in American English:
US [ˈrebiz]
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- 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
Word Origin
- rabies
- rabies: [17] Latin rabiēs meant ‘fury, madness’ (it is the source of English rage). Hence it came to be used for ‘madness in dogs’, and was subsequently adopted as the name of the disease causing this, when it came to be identified. The word was derived from the verb rabere ‘be mad’, as also was rabidus, source of English rabid [17].=> rabid, rage
- rabies (n.)
- 1590s, from Latin rabies "madness, rage, fury," related to rabere "be mad, rave" (see rage (v.)). Sense of "extremely fatal infectious disease causing madness in dogs" was a secondary meaning in Latin. Known hydrophobia in humans.
Example
- 1. They can transfer rabies and other diseases to other animals .
- 2. Rabies is perhaps the archetypal zoonotic disease one spread between animals and humans .
- 3. Ifthe rabies virus could , it would be the most horrific pathogen on the planet .
- 4. This category makes up nearly two-thirds of all human infectious diseases , including rabies , ebola and malaria .
- 5. Ed callaway at the salk institute in la jolla , california , does so using rabies viruses .