rabies
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.
Synonyms
- madness
Related words
- antirabies
- rabific
- rabiform
- baby rabies
- furious rabies
- rabid
- rabietic
- pseudorabies
Example sentences
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This definition is adapted from “rabies” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.