bubonic
[byoo-bon-ik, boo-]
Origin of bubonic
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Examples from the Web for bubonic
Contemporary Examples
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.
Historical Examples
I think he is taking home the bacilli of the bubonic plague as a present to our country.
Quaint CourtshipsVarious
But though on that evening a basso did bleat, it may be that he was not bubonic.
The Paliser caseEdgar Saltus
Shanghai, as I write this, is just recovering from a bubonic plague scare.
Where Half The World Is Waking UpClarence Poe
A hundred years before my time there was the bubonic plague.
The Scarlet PlagueJack London
At this place a report of bubonic plague, in Brazil, reached us.
The ConquestOscar Micheaux
Word Origin and History for bubonic
adj.
"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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
bubonic
(bōō-bŏn′ĭk)
- Of or relating to a bubo.
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