| 单词 | pestis |
| 释义 | pestis (once / 155518 pages) n WORD FAMILY pestis USAGE EXAMPLESThe tests revealed the presence of Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the plague. BBC(Nov 29, 2016) The plague, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, can be cured with antibiotics if drugs are started soon enough. Washington Times(Nov 06, 2016) German scientists have now confirmed that both outbreaks were caused by the same bacterium -- Yersinia pestis. US News(Sep 02, 2016) n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper pest, pestilence, plague bubonic 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 person plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plaguea 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 septicemic plaguean especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person ambulant plague, ambulatory plague, pestis ambulansa mild form of bubonic plague Black Death, Black Plaguethe epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe epidemic disease any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people |
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