Vocabulary : Anthracometric to Anthropidae

Anthracometric : Of or pertaining to an anthracometer.
Anthraconite : A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.
Anthracosis : A chronic lung disease, common among coal miners, due to the inhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner's phthisis.
Anthraquinone : A hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2O2.C6H4, subliming in shining yellow needles. It is obtained by oxidation of anthracene.
Anthrax : A carbuncle. ;; A malignant pustule. ;; A microscopic, bacterial organism (Bacillus anthracis), resembling transparent rods. [See Illust. under Bacillus.] ;; An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

Anthrax vaccine : A fluid vaccine obtained by growing a bacterium (Bacterium anthracis) in beef broth. It is used to immunize animals, esp. cattle.
Anthrenus : A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariae. The larvae are commonly confounded with moths.
Anthropic : Alt. of Anthropical
Anthropical : Like or related to man; human.
Anthropidae : The group that includes man only.

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