[usu. treated as sing.]a rare contagious disease that mainly affects horses, characterized by swellings below the jaw and mucous discharge from the nostrils (马)鼻疽(病)
This disease is caused by the bacterium Pseudomonas mallei 该疾病是由鼻疽假单胞菌引起的
语源
late 15th cent.: from Old French glandre (see gland)