SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

An especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person

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Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("septicemic 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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