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    PULMONIC PLAGUE

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    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 feverplay

    Synonyms:

    plague pneumonia; pneumonic plague; pulmonic plague

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

    Hypernyms ("pulmonic 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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