bubonic plague
a serious, sometimes fatal, infection with the bacterial toxin Yersinia pestis, transmitted by fleas from infected rodents and characterized by high fever, weakness, and the formation of buboes, especially in the groin and armpits.
Compare Meanings
Click for a side-by-side comparison of meanings. Use the word comparison feature to learn the differences between similar and commonly confused words.
Origin of bubonic plague
1- Compare Black Death.
Words Nearby bubonic plague
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use bubonic plague in a sentence
And, most important, it wasn’t bubonic plague, the historically dreaded but actually not very contagious form of the disease.
The next pandemic is already here. Covid can teach us how to fight it. | Maryn McKenna | June 23, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewSan Francisco plague outbreakIn 1900, an outbreak of bubonic plague struck San Francisco.
The long, ugly history of anti-Asian racism and violence in the U.S. | Gillian Brockell | March 18, 2021 | Washington PostIsaac Newton was a Cambridge student, quarantined because of the bubonic plague at his family’s apple orchard, when he made some of his key discoveries about gravity.
Even if You Feel Like This Was a Lost Year, That Might Not Be True | Joanne Lipman | February 16, 2021 | TimeThe bubonic plague of the 1340s was often blamed on Jews by the Ahmadinejads of the era.
The terrible plague of the Black Death that swept over Europe from 1347 to 1350 was a malignant form of the bubonic plague.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin Malley
The bubonic plague, the most fatal of all epidemic diseases, has already appeared in California and Mexico.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyIn visiting a case of bubonic plague the priest should be as cautious as if he were attending a smallpox patient.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyA determined effort is now being made to exterminate the rat because of its connection with bubonic plague.
A Civic Biology | George William Hunterbubonic plague, one of the most dreaded of all infectious diseases, is carried to man by fleas from rats.
A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
British Dictionary definitions for bubonic plague
an acute infectious febrile disease characterized by chills, prostration, delirium, and formation of buboes: caused by the bite of a rat flea infected with the bacterium Yersinia pestis: See also plague
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for bubonic plague
[ bōō-bŏn′ĭk ]
The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Cultural definitions for bubonic plague
[ (byooh-bon-ik, booh-bon-ik playg) ]
A highly contagious disease, usually fatal, affecting the lymphatic system. The bubonic plague is caused by bacteria transmitted to humans by rat-borne fleas.
Notes for bubonic plague
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Browse