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pneumonic plague
noun
, Pathology.
- a form of plague characterized by lung involvement.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pneumonic plague1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
Pneumonic Plague is an even more dangerous form of this disease.
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The cause of the pneumonic plague is so little known that it may be interesting to mention it here.
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Pneumonic plague had appeared in Manchuria, and was stalking through the land.
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The more fatal form is known as pneumonic plague, and in this the lungs are the seat of the disease.
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It is the custom to speak of (a) bubonic plague, (b) septicmic plague, (c) pneumonic plague, as though they were three diseases.
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