Definition of: glanders

(glan′dərz) noun
A serious contagious disease of horses, mules, and other equines, caused by a bacillus (Malleomyces mallei) and characterized by nasal discharges and ulcerative lesions of the lungs and other organs: occasionally found in other animals and in man. When affecting the skin it is called farcy. [<OF glandres, plural of glandre a gland]
—glan′dered, glan′der·ous adjective