Bubonic-plague Synonyms

bo͝o-bŏnĭk, byo͝o-
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
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pestis bubonica
  2. glandular-plague

Bubonic-plague Sentence Examples

  • Since 1900 there have been several mild outbreaks of bubonic plague.

  • Its already evil reputation has been increased of late years by the fact that it is one of the chief disseminators of bubonic plague.

  • Cholera is endemic in some parts of the vilayet, and before 1875 the same was true of the bubonic plague.

  • It is not till the 6th century of our era, in the reign of Justinian, that we find bubonic plague in Europe, a s a part of the great cycle of pestilence, accompanied by extraordinary natural phenomena, which lasted fifty years, and is described with a singular misunderstanding of medical terms by Gibbon in his forty-third chapter.

  • Whether in all the pestilences known by this name the disease was really the same may admit of doubt, but it is clear that in some at least it was the bubonic plague.

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