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Bubo

noun
(pl. buboes)
1.
A lymph node that is inflamed and swollen because of plague or gonorrhea or tuberculosis.
2.
A genus of Strigidae.  Synonym: genus Bubo.



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"Bubo" Quotes from Famous Books



... has been recommended by some writers on the first day, where the inflammation was supposed to be attended with sufficient arterial strength, which might perhaps sometimes happen, as the bubo seems to be a suppuration; but the carbuncle, or anthrax, is a gangrene of the part, and shews the greatest debility of circulation. Whence all the means before enumerated in this genus of diseases to support the powers of life are to be administered. Currents of cold air, cold water, ...
— Zoonomia, Vol. II - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin


Words linked to "Bubo" :   lymph node, lymph gland, horned owl, node, symptom, Strigidae, family Strigidae, bird genus


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