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SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("septicemic 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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