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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 fever
Familiarity information: PLAGUE PNEUMONIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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