bubo
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buboes
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buboes
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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
For he is ever anchoring himself upon some passion, and fattening it, and, like a bubo, fastens himself on some unsound and inflamed parts of the soul.
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
Swelling of the glands in the groin is common, called a bubo.
From The Royal Road to Health by Charles Alfred Tyrrell
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 Alexis Thomson
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
More than 80% of plague cases in the U.S. have been in the bubonic form, from which patients will develop swollen, painful lymph nodes called buboes, 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
The bruised leaves are used locally in painful affections of the joints and to abort syphilitic buboes and abscesses of all kinds.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
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