pestis
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 • Syn: plague, pestilence, pest • Derivationally related forms: plague (for: plague) • Hypernyms: epidemic disease • Hyponyms: bubonic plague, pestis bubonica, glandular plague, pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague, plague pneumonia, septicemic plague
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