Botulism is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 316 anagrams from letters in botulism (bilmostu).
1875-80; German Botulismus, equivalent to Latin botul(us) sausage (a source of botulin toxin) + -ismus -ism
This may take place with other kinds of flesh, and is known as botulism, or allantiasis.
It should be clearly understood that botulism is one of the very rare maladies.
Indeed, more than a million doses of botulism antiserum were prepared (PDF) for D-Day soldiers invading Normandy Beach.
botulism is caused by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum, a hardy anaerobe.
Thus far the best-known examples of poisoning by the products of micro-organisms are botulism and ergotism.
To regard every can as a source of botulism is worse than regarding every dog as a source of hydrophobia.