bubonic plague

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bu·bon·ic plague

(bo͞o-bŏn′ĭk, byo͞o-)

A form of infectious plague that is characterized by the formation of buboes and is transmitted to humans principally by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected rodent, usually a rat.

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bubonic plague

(Pathology) an acute infectious febrile disease characterized by chills, prostration, delirium, and formation of buboes: caused by the bite of a rat flea infected with the bacterium Yersinia pestis. See also plague

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bubon′ic plague′

a severe infection caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, characterized by the formation of buboes at the armpits and groin. Compare Black Death.

[1885–90]

bu·bon·ic plague

(bo͞o-bŏn′ĭk)

The most common form of plague, with symptoms including fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and inflamed lymph nodes (called buboes). It is transmitted by fleas from infected rats or other rodents. The Black Death was an epidemic of bubonic plague. See more at plague.

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Noun

bubonic plague - the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person

glandular plague, pestis bubonica

pest, pestilence, pestis, plague - a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

ambulant plague, ambulatory plague, pestis ambulans - a mild form of bubonic plague

Black Death, Black Plague - the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe

Translations

peste bubónica

buboninis maras

builenpest

bubonic plague

[bjuːˌbɒnɪkˈpleɪg] N → peste f bubónica

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bubonic plague

n → Beulenpest f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bubonic plague

[bjuːˈbɒnɪkˈpleɪg] adj → peste f bubbonica

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bu·bon·ic plague

n. peste bubónica.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

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The man who was immune to yellow fever was carried away by cholera; and if he were immune to that, too, the Black Death, which was the bubonic plague, swept him away.

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