glanders

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glanders - n., a contagious bacterial disease chiefly of horses and mules but communicable to humans, characterized by swellings beneath the jaw and a profuse mucous discharge from the nostrils.


Wiki. From Old French, from Latin glandulae, swollen glands, literally little acorns.

---L.

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My main association with glanders is a passage from 1066 and All That about one of the VIII wives of Henry VIII, "Anne of Cloves, whom he had on approval from Belgium and sent back on discovering that she was not really a queen at all but a “fat mare with glanders."

---L.