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bubonic plague
Word definitions for bubonic plague in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the most common form of the plague; characterized by delirium and the formation of buboes; does not spred from person to person
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Elsewhere, typhus carried off many who had been weakened by starvation; in Chesterfield the pestilence was almost certainly bubonic plague . ▪ Global incidences of cholera, tuberculosis, diphtheria and bubonic plague have all ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context disease English) A contagious, often fatal, epidemic disease caused by the bacterium ''Yersinia pestis'', transmitted by the bite of fleas from an infected person or rodent, especially a rat, and characterized by delirium, chills, fever, vomiting, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bubonic plague is one of three types of bacterial infection caused by Yersinia pestis . Three to seven days after exposure to the bacteria flu like symptoms develop. This includes fever , headaches , and vomiting. Swollen and painful lymph nodes occur in ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bubonic plague \Bubonic plague\ (Med.) a severe and often fatal disease caused by infection with the bacterium Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis ), transmitted to man by the bite of fleas, themselves usually infected by biting infected rodents. ...
Usage examples of bubonic plague.
There's bubonic plague, which is when you have buboes or swellings in the groin and axilla.
The selection board had been awed by Beckett's talents and accomplishments: public health consultant on bubonic plague.
In the Middle Ages, a century of progress was brought to a crashing halt by simultaneous outbreaks of the bubonic plague.
Ahrens saying untreated bubonic plague kills people in four or five days, but he can't possibly last that long.
We'll examine why many of our most familiar infectious diseases run in epidemics, such as our current AIDS epidemic and the Black Death (bubonic plague) epidemics of the Middle Ages.
I know perfectly well that the fatality rate from typhus or bubonic plague makes the toxic side effects of DDT look like cotton candy.
You see, it simply isn't enough that this new bubonic plague out of China will kill the Wamphyri.
One related to the terrible bubonic plague, and the other to a special event in Mongol history.
That would seem a good time to tell viewers that bubonic plague is not, in fact, at all contagious human-to-human.