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pneumonic plague

noun

, Pathology.
  1. 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.

The cause of the pneumonic plague is so little known that it may be interesting to mention it here.

Pneumonic plague had appeared in Manchuria, and was stalking through the land.

The more fatal form is known as pneumonic plague, and in this the lungs are the seat of the disease.

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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