bubo
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Origin of bubo
1350–1400; Middle English < Late Latin < Greek boubṓn literally, groin
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He was far from his natural home: Eurasian eagle-owls, known by the scientific name Bubo bubo, are apex predators typically found in much of continental Europe, Scandinavia, Russia and Central Asia.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
It was lodged under my armpit like a bubo.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 18, 2018
At the end of the fifteenth and middle of the sixteenth century, we have as alternating with bubo plague, the Sudor Anglicanus.
From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various
When the chancroid is healed and the bubo becomes a scar the disease is cured.
From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by Moss, James A. (James Alfred)
After the bubo has been opened the wound may take on the characters of a soft sore.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Thomson, Alexis
Bubonic plague is the most common type of plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, characterised by swollen lymph nodes called "buboes".
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
This form of the disease typically results from an infected-flea bite, and symptoms such as buboes, fever, headache, chills and weakness develop within two to eight days, according to the CDC.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025
That gives Verhoeven the opportunity to spotlight the festering, boil-like buboes that are the disease’s signature symptom.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021
If you think you might have been bitten by a plague-infected flea, you can take some of these drugs before any symptoms emerge, and that will stop the painful buboes appearing in the first place.
From Slate ● Jul. 15, 2020
They occupy at times extensive areas of the body or the greater part of its surface; at times they appear only in the neighborhood of the buboes.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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