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byuˈbɒn ɪk, bu-bubon·ic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bubonicadjective

    of or evidencing buboes

    "bubonic plague"

Wiktionary

  1. bubonicadjective

    Of or pertaining to buboes.

Wikipedia

  1. bubonic

    A bubo (Greek βουβών, boubṓn, 'groin') is adenitis or inflammation of the lymph nodes and is an example of reactive lymphadenopathy.

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  1. bubonic

    Bubonic refers to a severe infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. This disease primarily affects rodents and is transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected flea, causing symptoms such as fever, weakness, and swollen and painful lymph nodes known as "buboes". The most well-known instance of bubonic disease is the Bubonic Plague, also known as the Black Death, that caused massive outbreaks in history.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bubonicadjective

    of or pertaining to a bubo or buboes; characterized by buboes

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bubonic in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bubonic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of bubonic in a Sentence

  1. Howard Stern:

    The bubonic plague only killed 50 million people, that's peanuts compared to the more than 130 million albums.

  2. Erika Lee:

    Whether it be typhus and Irish immigrants and the bubonic plague and Chinese immigrants, cholera and Russian Jews, when Mexican immigrants were coming across the border after an outbreak of typhus in El Paso, they were literally sprayed with insecticide.

  3. Winston Black:

    They're often called the' plague deniers' -- they're denying that the medieval Black Death was the bubonic plague, they've proposed anthrax,( and) something like an early Ebola.

  4. Simon Clarke:

    You can't stop people wanting to travel, and that has been the case for thousands of years, in exactly the same way that sailing goods around the world allowed bubonic plague into the UK, allowing people to fly around the world allows them to spread diseases.

  5. Jay Carver:

    1665 was the very last recorded episode of plague. There were 400 years of regular plague, and suddenly it stops, and what we want to be able to find out, from sampling the graves of that date, is why that is. And what it is about the bacteria that causes bubonic plague that suddenly changed at that point.

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