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bubonic

/byoo-bon-ik, boo-/US // byuˈbɒn ɪk, bu- //

泡泡糖,泡沫,泡沫化,泡沫性

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Pathology.

    • : of or relating to a bubo.
    • : accompanied by or affected with buboes.

Examples

  • She also says that unlike bubonic or septicemic, the pneumonic type is most infectious.

  • First, bubonic (rhymes with pneumonic but is altogether different) is a local infection sequestered in a lymph node.

  • The patient has been described by some reports as having “bubonic” plague and by others as having developed the “pneumonic” form.

  • The bubonic plague of the 1340s was often blamed on Jews by the Ahmadinejads of the era.

  • The terrible plague of the Black Death that swept over Europe from 1347 to 1350 was a malignant form of the bubonic plague.

  • The bubonic plague, the most fatal of all epidemic diseases, has already appeared in California and Mexico.

  • In visiting a case of bubonic plague the priest should be as cautious as if he were attending a smallpox patient.

  • Bubonic plague, which is primarily a disease of rats, is undoubtedly transmitted from the infected rats to man by the fleas.

  • A determined effort is now being made to exterminate the rat because of its connection with bubonic plague.