Rabies
Contributors: Alan C. Jackson (Editor); William H. Wunner (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: April 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780123790774
First sentence: The dictionary tells us that rabies is derived from the Latin rabere, "to rage or to rave," as is the corresponding adjective rabid; rabere possibly may have earlier origins in the Sanskrit rabhas, for "violence."