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Bubonic plague   /bjubˈɑnɪk pleɪg/   Listen
Bubonic plague

noun
1.
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: glandular plague, pestis bubonica.





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... treatment at the hands of this great Arabian medical thinker of the eleventh century. He copied freely from his predecessors, but completed their work with his own observations and conclusions. One of his chapters is devoted to leprosy alone. He has definite information with regard to bubonic plague and the filaria medinensis. Here and there one finds striking anticipations of what are supposed to be modern observations. Nothing was too small for his notice. One portion of the fourth book is on cosmetics, in which he treats ...
— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh


Words linked to "Bubonic plague" :   Black Plague, pestilence, pestis ambulans, pestis, pestis bubonica, ambulatory plague, plague, Black Death, ambulant plague, pest


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