Crossword clues for bubonic
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bubonic \Bu*bon"ic\ (b[-u]*b[o^]n"[i^]k), a. Of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"characterized by swelling in the groin," by 1795, from Latin bubo (genitive bubonis) "swelling of lymph glands" (in the groin), from Greek boubon "the groin; swelling in the groin" + -ic. Bubonic plague attested by 1827.
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to buboes.
WordNet
adj. of or evidencing buboes; "bubonc plague"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "bubonic".
As those words were written on his chart Amado Ortega was dying of bubonic plague in its wildly infectious pneumonic form.
Cholera and bubonic plague followed, and then, five years and more later, when the worst seemed to have passed, came the culminating attack by maculated fever.
In the United States over the last fifty years, persons with bubonic or septicemic plague developed pneumonia in about 12 percent of the cases.
Bubonic and septicemic plague are spread only through bites from infected fleas, so people who develop this form of the disease are not contagious to others.
Fred Hoyle and his colleague Chandra Wickramasinghe further eroded enthusiasm for panspermia by suggesting that outer space brought us not only life but also many diseases such as flu and bubonic plague, ideas that were easily disproved by biochemists.
He also believed that Earth was not only seeded by life from space but also by many of its diseases, such as influenza and bubonic plague, and suggested at one point that humans evolved projecting noses with the nostrils underneath as a way of keeping cosmic pathogens from falling into them.
As those words were written on his chart Amado Ortega was dying of bubonic plague in its wildly infectious pneumonic form.
The Scandinavians personified bubonic plague as the goddess Hel, a hag who came with a broom and swept the countryside clean of life.
Miller suspected that the Pecos country foci of bubonic plague had been found.
The aspens turned yellow on the high slopes and the snow came, ending trapping and sending the tiny rodents which die of bubonic plague, and sometimes carry it dormant in their bodies, into the winter-long sleep of hibernation.
The same rats that spread bubonic plague to the city are now more numerous than tourists.
Snuffy greeted them with the openhearted good humor and warmth he usually reserved for rattlesnakes, gila monsters, and the bubonic plague.
Bubonic, that's the one with the buboes, pneumonic," he said, pronouncing the P.
Bubonic plague was spread by rat fleas, and that was the kind that produced the buboes.
There's bubonic plague, which is when you have buboes or swellings in the groin and axilla.