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Bubonic - having or relating to a "bubo", a swollen lymph node, most commonly heard now refering to the swollen lymph nodes seen with plague. Bubo comes from the Greek word Boubon which means either the groin or a swelling in the groin.
Origin for the Bubonic Plague NameBubonic Plague is named because of the symptoms. The bacterial infection produces a painful swelling of the lymph nodes. These are called buboes. Often the first swelling is evident in the groin. During the Middle Ages, a pandemic of bubonic plague was referred to as the Black Death, because of the blackening of the skin due to the dried blood that accumulated under the skin's surface.
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How can you use the word bubonic plague in a sentence?
The Bubonic Plague killed millions of people.
What is the official name of the black plauge?
The Black Plague was an epidemic brought to Europe by trading ships from the eastern Mediterrenean. Itr is thought by many to have been bubonic plague, but others think another disease was responsible The people who got the black plague became covered in "Buboes", or blister like objects filled with macrophages, or immunity cells. It was mostly spread by rat fleas. The Black Plague was called as it is because of internal bleeding, one of the symptoms, and the blood drying and giving the skin a "black" or deep,dark red color.
What was the disease that killed millions of people carried by?
The disease that killed millions of people was carried by Bubonic plague and was carried by rats.
How would it be like if today you had a plague?
Depends on the type of illness you pick up. One person cannot be a plague but s/he can get infected by a plague. A plague technically is when an illness spreads across a population and is difficult to contain. For example the bubonic or black plague still exists today in improverished countries but it is usually contained before it gets out of control. The person with the plague is treated with antibiotics and quarantined from everyone else until they recover.
What is the quickest killing disease?
Infectious diseases, which I'm sure is what you mean since heart attacks and brain aneurysms kill you in a matter of seconds, such as Ebola can kill you within a week.
What is the medical name of the Bubonic Plague?
Bubonic Plague is caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis.
What was the name of the disease from the black plague?
The Bubonic Plague.
How is Doctor Yersin connected to bubonic plague?
The name of the bacillus that causes Bubonic plague is Yersinnia pestis.
What was the name of the plague that killed many people in the 14 century?
Well really there were three- the most common being the bubonic plague.
What is the real common name for plague?
The common name for bubonic plague is the Black Death.
What is the original name for black death?
The black death is also known as 'The Black Plague' but the scientific name for it is the bubonic plague.
Can you prevent Bubonic Plague?
To be cured from the Bubonic Plague you can use antibiodics. In the previous bubonic plagues when it was a plague there was no cure.
What is the name of bacteria in the bubonic plague?
Yersinia pestis.
What is the real scientific name for the plague?
Bubonic plaugue
What was the real name for the black death?
The Bubonic Plague
Why were the 1300 a century of crisis?
The Bubonic Plague
What Was another name for bubonic plague?
Another name for the plague is the black death
