pneumonic plague
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1. 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)
| hypernym | : | pest, pestilence, pestis, plague, |
| definition | : | 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) |
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