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PNEUMONIC PLAGUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever
Synonyms:
plague pneumonia; pneumonic plague; pulmonic plague
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("pneumonic plague" is a kind of...):
pest; pestilence; pestis; plague (a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal)
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