Bubonic-plague synonyms

bo͝o-bŏn'ĭk, byo͝o-

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pestis bubonica
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
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black-death
An epidemic of plague, especially its bubonic form, that occurred in outbreaks between 1347 and 1400. It originated in Asia and then swept through Europe, where it killed about a third of the population.
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glandular-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
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plague (related)
(Often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
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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.

  • 542; it spread over Egypt, and in the same or the next year passed to Constantinople, where it carried off io,000 persons in one day, with all the symptoms of bubonic plague.

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