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ANTHRAX (the Greek for " coal," or " carbuncle," so called by the ancients because they regarded it as burning like coal; cf. the French equivalent charbon; also known as fievre charbonneuse, Milzbrand, splenic fever, and malignant pustule), an acute, specific ...

THORAX (Gr. Owpa.%, breastplate, also the part of the body covered by it), the anatomical term for the chest, that part of the body which contains the heart and lungs (see ANATOMY: Superficial and Artistic, and SKELETON: Axial). For the surgery of the thorax r

... ned to the contorted portion west of Swansea and Llanelly. the ANTHRACOTHERIUM— ANTHRAX central and eastern portions producing steam, coking and house coals. Anthracites of newer, tertiary or cretaceous age, are found in the Crow's Nest part of the Rocky Mount ...