pestis
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1. 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 (noun.state)
| hypernym | : | epidemic disease, |
| definition | : | any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague, |
| definition | : | 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 fever (noun.state) |
| hyponym | : | septicemic plague, |
| definition | : | an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person (noun.state) |
| derivation | : | blight, plague, |
| definition | : | cause to suffer a blight (verb.weather) |
| derivation | : | blight, plague, |
| definition | : | cause to suffer a blight (verb.weather) |
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