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PLAGUE PNEUMONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plague pneumonia mean? 

PLAGUE PNEUMONIA (noun)
  The noun PLAGUE PNEUMONIA has 1 sense:

1. a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high feverplay

  Familiarity information: PLAGUE PNEUMONIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PLAGUE PNEUMONIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

plague pneumonia; pneumonic plague; pulmonic plague

Hypernyms ("plague pneumonia" 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)


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