PNEUMONIC PLAGUE

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

plague pneumonia; pneumonic plague; pulmonic plague

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("pneumonic plague" is a kind of...):

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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