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pestis
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  pestis - 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 animalpest, pestilence, plagueepidemic disease - any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many peoplebubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica - the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to personplague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague - 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 feversepticemic plague - an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person |
EncyclopediaSeeplaguepestis
plague (plāg), 1. Any disease of wide prevalence or of excessive mortality. 2. An acute infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and marked clinically by high fever, toxemia, prostration, a petechial eruption, lymph node enlargement, pneumonia, or hemorrhage from the mucous membranes; primarily a disease of rodents, transmitted to humans by fleas that have bitten infected animals. In humans the disease takes one of four clinical forms: bubonic plague, septicemic plague, pneumonic plague, or ambulant plague Synonym(s): pest, pestilence (1) , pestis [G. plege, a stroke, a wound; L. plaga, a stroke, injury] pestis (pes'tis) [L.] Plague.pestis ambulansAmbulatory plague.pestis fulminansThe most severe form of plague.pestis
Synonyms for pestisnoun 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 animalSynonymsRelated Words- epidemic disease
- bubonic plague
- glandular plague
- pestis bubonica
- plague pneumonia
- pneumonic plague
- pulmonic plague
- septicemic plague
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