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Detailed Synonyms for pneumonic plague in English
pneumonic plague:
pneumonic plague [the ~] noun
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the pneumonic plague
– a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever 1the pulmonic plague; the plague pneumonia; the pneumonic plague– a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person; characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever 1