NOUN | state | pulmonic plague, pneumonic 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 | pneumonic 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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