Medical term for the bacterial infection caused by Bacillus anthracis, affecting both animals and humans.
Anthrax can sometimes be transmitted from livestock to humans.
anthracnose
Botanical term for a group of fungal diseases causing dark lesions on leaves, stems, and fruits of plants.
These dark spots on the cucumber leaves are symptoms of anthracnose.
Standard kanji spelling for both medical and botanical senses.
Simplified variant with そ replacing the less common 疽; encountered in some contexts.
Compound of 炭疽 (tanso, 'anthrax') + 病 (byō, 'disease'). 炭疽 itself is a Sino-Japanese term combining 炭 (tan, 'charcoal') and 疽 (so, 'carbuncle, ulcer'), referring to the black eschar characteristic of cutaneous anthrax.