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Definition of: bubonic plague
Pathol.
A malignant, contagious, epidemic disease, characterized by fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and buboes: it is caused by a bacterium of the genus Pasteurella transmitted to man by fleas which have been infected by rats.
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