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pest, pestilence, plague
any epidemic disease with a high death rate
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pest, pestilence, pestis, plague
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
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Bornholm disease, diaphragmatic pleurisy, epidemic myalgia, epidemic pleurodynia, myosis
an acute infectious disease occurring in epidemic form and featuring paroxysms of pain (usually in the chest)
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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
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plague 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 fever
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septicemic 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
