A contagious, often fatal, epidemic disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, transmitted by the bite of fleas from an infected person or rodent, especially a rat, and characterized by delirium, chills, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, and the formation of buboes
epidemic of or a disease transmitted by fleas from infected rodents and characterized by delirium and the formation of buboes in the groin and armpits
the most common form of the plague; characterized by delirium and the formation of buboes; does not spred from person to person
Bubonic plague is a serious infectious disease spread by rats. It killed many people during the Middle Ages. = plague. a very serious disease spread by rats, that killed a lot of people in the Middle Ages Black Death (bubo , from boubon )