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Meaning of "bubonic plague" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF BUBONIC PLAGUE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BUBONIC PLAGUE

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Bubonic plague is a noun.
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WHAT DOES BUBONIC PLAGUE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

bubonic plague

Bubonic plague

Bubonic plague is a zoonotic disease, circulating mainly in fleas on small rodents, and is one of three types of bacterial infections caused by Yersinia pestis, that belongs to the family Enterobacteriaceae. Without treatment, the bubonic plague kills about two thirds of infected humans within four days. The term bubonic plague is derived from the Greek word βουβών, meaning "groin". Swollen lymph nodes especially occur in the armpit and groin in persons suffering from bubonic plague. Bubonic plague was often used synonymously for plague, but it does in fact refer specifically to an infection that enters through the skin and travels through the lymphatics, as is often seen in flea-borne infections. Bubonic plague—along with the septicemic plague and the pneumonic plague, which are the two other manifestations of Y. pestis—is commonly believed to be the cause of the Black Death that swept through Europe in the 14th century and killed an estimated 25 million people, or 30–60% of the European population. Around the Mediterranean Region, summers seemed to be the season when the disease took place.

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Synonyms and antonyms of bubonic plague in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «bubonic plague» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF BUBONIC PLAGUE

Find out the translation of bubonic plague to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of bubonic plague from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «bubonic plague» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

鼠疫
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

peste bubónica
570 millions of speakers

English

bubonic plague
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

bubonic प्लेग
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الطاعون الدبلي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бубонная чума
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

peste bubônica
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ববনের প্লেগ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

peste bubonique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

penyakit taun
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Beulenpest
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

腺ペスト
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

선 페스트
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bubonic plague
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

bệnh dịch hạch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கொடூரமான பிளேக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बुबोनिक प्लेग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hıyarcıklı veba
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

peste bubbonica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dżuma
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

бубонна чума
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ciuma bubonica
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

βουβωνική πανώλη
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

builepes
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

böldpest
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

byllepest
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of bubonic plague

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BUBONIC PLAGUE»

The term «bubonic plague» is normally little used and occupies the 112.006 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about bubonic plague

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4 QUOTES WITH «BUBONIC PLAGUE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word bubonic plague.
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Russell Crowe
I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
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Alan Huffman
Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
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Tony Kornheiser
The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.
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Wilhelm Reich
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BUBONIC PLAGUE»

Discover the use of bubonic plague in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to bubonic plague and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Bubonic Plague: The Black Death!
Looks at the disease the bubonic plague, its causes, how it affects the body, how to prevent it, and the history of its outbreaks.
Stephen Person, 2010
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A History of Bubonic Plague in the British Isles
How the black rat introduced the bubonic plague into Britain, and the subsequent effects on social and economic life.
J. F. D. Shrewsbury, 2005
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Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-century China
This book, the first work in English on the history of disease in China, traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteenth century, ...
Carol Ann Benedict, 1996
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Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic ...
An essential addition to any economics library, these five volumes present the contributions and writings of an influential and prolific scholar.
Myron J. Echenberg, 2007
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Bubonic Plague
Explores the history of the Bubonic Plague, how it spread, key players and happenings during the black death, and the event's effects on society up through modern times.
Kevin Cunningham, 2011
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Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia : Public Health and ...
John T. Alexander's study dramatically highlights how the Russian people reacted to the Plague, and shows how the tools of modern epidemiology can illuminate the causes of the plague's tragic course through Russia.
Russian John T. Alexander Professor of History, and East European Studies University of Kansas, 2002
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Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia: Public Health and ...
John T. Alexander's study dramatically highlights how the Russian people reacted to the Plague, and shows how the tools of modern epidemiology can illuminate the causes of the plague's tragic course through Russia.
John T. Alexander, 2002
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The Black Death, 1346-1353: The Complete History
New research, drawing on records from across Europe, throws light on the nature of the disease, its origin, spread, mortality, and its impact on history.
Ole Jørgen Benedictow, 2004
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Black death, white medicine: bubonic plague and the politics ...
Looking at the bubonic plague in colonial Senegal between 1914 and 1945, the author examines how colonizer and colonized changed their perceptions of the epidemic over time.
Myron J. Echenberg, 2002
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Bubonic Plague
Recounts the history and effects of the bubonic plague, describes how the disease spread, and offers information about treatment and prevention in the modern world.
Rachel Lynette, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BUBONIC PLAGUE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term bubonic plague is used in the context of the following news items.
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How to find gold: The Californian badlands, digging out crevasses …
For a moment, concerns over mountain lions, bubonic plague, tarantulas, dehydration, poison oak and ticks faded away as I became ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
2
What Microbes Do You Commute With?
But not in the subway—all bubonic plague samples found in the subway were dead. So, bubonic plague is an unexpected, but not a surprising ... «Clapway, Jul 15»
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A big crook, the Kennedys and more! The lurid tale of Seattle's Dave …
(They paid him a $5 bounty for each one that tested positive for bubonic plague.) Beck climbed from Teamsters organizer to local president to ... «The Seattle Times, Jul 15»
4
Plague Evolution: How a Mild Stomach Bug Became a Worldwide …
... known today as bubonic plague, the researchers said in their study, published online today (June 30) in the journal Nature Communications. «Live Science, Jun 15»
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Picking up Protease Allowed Y. Pestis to Cause Pneumonic Plague …
... a single amino acid allowed Y. pestis to spread beyond the lungs and cause the invasive infection that's the hallmark of bubonic plague. «GenomeWeb, Jun 15»
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Hong Kong government holds huge practice exercise, just in case …
They then pretended a multi-cluster outbreak of human bubonic plague cases had been detected. EEEK! Luckily enough, everything worked ... «Coconuts Hong Kong, Jun 15»
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The Plague Is Not Back, It Was Always Here
This is the form that is synonymous with the Black Death and bubonic plague. Secondly, Yersinia pestis infects the blood, which results in ... «Council Chronicle, Jun 15»
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The bubonic plague and how not to get it in 2015
If you, like the rest of us, thought the plague had disappeared with the Middle Ages, gone the way of the Knights Templar and the feudal system; ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
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Colorado Teen Dies of Bubonic Plague; Should We Be Worried?
The bubonic plague has been in and out of human history more times than we can actually count. For historians, tracking the bubonic plague ... «Clapway, Jun 15»
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Ex-Altan dies of bubonic plague
The story of the 16-year-old Colorado boy who died from bubonic plague is making headlines in media outlets from The Washington Post to the ... «The Storm Lake Times, Jun 15»

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