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Definition of: rabies
(rā′bēz, -bi·ēz) noun
An acute infectious disease of animals, especially of dogs, caused by a virus and affecting the central nervous system; hydrophobia: readily transmissible to man by the bite of an affected animal. [<L <rabere rave]
—ra′bi·et′ic (-et′ik) adjective
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