First, bubonic (rhymes with pneumonic but is altogether different) is a local infection sequestered in a lymph node.
The patient has been described by some reports as having “bubonic” plague and by others as having developed the “pneumonic” form.
The bubonic plague of the 1340s was often blamed on Jews by the Ahmadinejads of the era.
I think he is taking home the bacilli of the bubonic plague as a present to our country.
But though on that evening a basso did bleat, it may be that he was not bubonic.
Shanghai, as I write this, is just recovering from a bubonic plague scare.
A hundred years before my time there was the bubonic plague.
At this place a report of bubonic plague, in Brazil, reached us.
"But I might give you bubonic plague," Martin said nervously.
It occurs in several forms, of which the bubonic and the pneumonic are the most common.
"characterized by swelling in the groin," by 1795, from Latin bubo (genitive bubonis) "swelling of lymph glands" (in the groin), from Greek boubon "the groin; swelling in the groin" + -ic. Bubonic plague attested by 1827.
bubonic bu·bon·ic (bōō-bŏn'ĭk, byōō-)
adj.
Of or relating to a bubo.
