单词 | bubonic |
释义 | bubonicadj.1n. A. adj.1 Of an infectious disease, spec. plague: characterized by the development of buboes. Also: of, relating to, or of the nature of a bubo; of or relating to bubonic plague. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [adjective] > abscess exitural?a1425 apostemate1540 aposteming1615 apostemeda1626 apostematous1634 apostematic1666 bubonic1713 1713 in T. Creech tr. Lucretius Of Nature of Things (new ed.) II. 778 The modern Physicians believe, that true Plagues, or those Infections, at least, which they call Bubonick, are disseminated by Contagion only. 1802 Dr. Whyte Let. 2 Jan. in J. McGrigor Med. Sketches Exped. to Egypt from India (1804) 113 I just now inoculated myself, by friction, with bubonic matter on the left thigh. 1853 Lancet 24 Sept. 308/1 The only medicinal application of olive oil in epidemics I am acquainted with consists in friction of the body with warm oil in cases of plague with bubonic eruptions. 1871 Echo 15 Aug. 1/4 The bubonic disease in Khorassan. 1908 Lancet 15 Feb. 495/1 This was examined microscopically and was found to contain numbers of bubonic bacilli. 1948 Jrnl. Infectious Dis. 82 52/2 Plague was not considered owing to the nonexistence of bubonic cases. 1982 R. Gair Children of Paul's ii. 71 Servants, journeymen and apprentices would constantly have flowed in to replace losses from the bubonic epidemic. 2010 Epidemiol. & Infection 138 2/2 The primary septicaemic form of plague is actually a variant of the bubonic form. B. n. = bubonic plague n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] > bubonic plague pestilencea1382 plague1522 cannikin1612 black plague1626 Black Death1755 bubonic plague1803 bubo plague1833 bubonic1901 1901 Daily News 11 Feb. 5/3 A native child died last night, and the post-mortem proved the existence of bubonic. 1971 U. K. Le Guin Lathe of Heaven (1973) vii. 104 There were epidemics, one after another, dysentery and hepatitis and then bubonic. 2000 M. J. Cale Digital Dream iii. i. 65 Monkeys hate him for some reason... Serve them right if they're all in line for bubonic this week. Compounds bubonic plague n. the most common form of plague (plague n. 3c), characterized by the development of a bubo or buboes, usually in the groin or armpit; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] > bubonic plague pestilencea1382 plague1522 cannikin1612 black plague1626 Black Death1755 bubonic plague1803 bubo plague1833 bubonic1901 1803 J. R. Manley Inaug. Diss. Yellow Fever 12 Bubonic plague would become epidemic in the same manner, whether in the torrid latitude of Gambia, or in the frozen regions of Zembla. 1917 H. W. Conn Bacteria, Yeasts, & Molds in Home (rev. ed.) xv. 222 Fleas, also, distribute the bubonic plague, which has recently produced so many deaths in the Old World. 2011 C. Zimmer Planet of Viruses 36 Four passengers on a French ship in the Suez Canal came down with bubonic plague. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † bubonicadj.2 Obsolete (poetic and rare). Owl-like. ΚΠ 1751 W. Kenrick Old Woman's Dunciad 13 Say, Muse, how Ebenezer, by her Pow'r, From human Frame into bubonic Form Fell metamorphos'd. 1786 ‘P. Pindar’ Lousiad: Canto I (new ed.) 25 With hands a kimbo, and bubonic look. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.1n.1713adj.21751 |
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