glander noun. ['glandǝ] L15.
[Old French glandre from Latin glandulae pl., throat glands, swollen glands in the neck: see GLANDULE.]
1. A glandular swelling about the neck. L15-E16.

2. In pl. (treated as sing.; often with the). An infectious fatal disease of horses, donkeys, etc. (also transmissible to humans), caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas mallei, and characterized by inflammation or ulceration of the nasal mucous membranes and lymph nodes, and nodule formation in the lungs, spleen, etc. E16.

■ glandered adjective affected with glanders M17.

■ glanderous adjective affected with, or of the nature of, glanders E18.

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