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Rabies

//ˈɹeɪ.biːz// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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. uncountable
  2. 2
    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 wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin rabiēs (“rage, madness, fury”). Doublet of rage.

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