| 单词 | pneumonic plague |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspneumonic plague pneumonic plague n. a virulent form of plague in which there is infection of the lung parenchyma by Yersinia pestis, and which can be transmitted directly from person to person by droplet infection. ΚΠ 1897 W. F. Gatacre Rep. Bubonic Plague in Bombay 94 I would lay stress on the infectious disposition of pneumonic plague. 1898 Times 19 Feb. 11/5 These early cases..fell chiefly upon the lungs as a kind of malignant pneumonia; and this so-called ‘pneumonic plague’ existed in Bombay as early as February or March, 1896. 1918 A. Huxley Let. 28 June (1969) 156 Then there have been two cases of pneumonic plague in Sussex. 2005 New Yorker 21 Mar. 82/3 If the disease goes straight to the lungs—a variation known as pneumonic plague—the course is shorter and nastier. < as lemmas |
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