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BUBONIC PLAGUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
bubonic plague; glandular plague; pestis bubonica
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("bubonic plague" is a kind of...):
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bubonic plague"):
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)
