| NOUN | state | pestis bubonica, bubonic plague, glandular plague | the most common form of the plague in humans |
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| 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. | |
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| Synonyms | bubonic plague, glandular plague | |
| Narrower | 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 |
| ambulant plague, ambulatory plague, pestis ambulans | A mild form of bubonic plague | |
| Broader | plague, pestilence, pest, pestis | 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 |
| Spanish | peste bubónica, peste glandular | |
| Catalan | pesta bubònica | |
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