malignant pustule

1. 1.

   a form of anthrax infection that begins as papule that becomes a vesicle and breaks with a discharge of toxins; symptoms of septicemia are severe with vomiting and high fever and profuse sweating; the infection is often fatal

   Synonymscutaneous anthrax

   Broaderanthrax

Questions about malignant pustule

What does malignant pustule mean?

malignant pustule means "a form of anthrax infection that begins as papule that becomes a vesicle and breaks with a discharge of toxins; symptoms of septicemia are severe with vomiting and high fever and profuse sweating; the infection is often fatal".

What is another word for malignant pustule?

Close synonyms include cutaneous anthrax. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is malignant pustule a common word?

malignant pustule is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.