PESTIS BUBONICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pestis bubonica mean? 

• PESTIS BUBONICA (noun)
  The noun PESTIS BUBONICA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PESTIS BUBONICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PESTIS BUBONICA (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

bubonic plague; glandular plague; pestis bubonica

Hypernyms ("pestis bubonica" 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 "pestis bubonica"):

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)