bubonic plague

1. The most common form of the plague in humans;
   Characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin;
   Does not spread from person to person (synset 114162497)
   is a type 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
   subtypes:

   • ambulant plague, ambulatory plague, pestis ambulans - a mild form of bubonic plague
   • black death, black plague - the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
   same as: glandular plague, pestis bubonica

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