"glandular plague" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

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: bubonic plague, pestis bubonica