bubonic

[ byoo-bon-ik, boo- ]

adjectivePathology.
  1. of or relating to a bubo.

  2. accompanied by or affected with buboes.

Origin of bubonic

1
1870–75; <Late Latin būbōn- (stem of būbō) bubo + -ic

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How to use bubonic in a sentence

  • The terrible plague of the Black Death that swept over Europe from 1347 to 1350 was a malignant form of the bubonic plague.

  • The bubonic plague, the most fatal of all epidemic diseases, has already appeared in California and Mexico.

  • In visiting a case of bubonic plague the priest should be as cautious as if he were attending a smallpox patient.

  • bubonic plague, which is primarily a disease of rats, is undoubtedly transmitted from the infected rats to man by the fleas.

    A Civic Biology | George William Hunter
  • A determined effort is now being made to exterminate the rat because of its connection with bubonic plague.

    A Civic Biology | George William Hunter