| NOUN | state | pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague, plague pneumonia | a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person |
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| 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. | |
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| Synonyms | pulmonic plague, plague pneumonia | |
| 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 neumónica, peste pneumónica | |
| Catalan | pesta pneumònica | |
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