Definition of pestis Pestis
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What does pestis mean?
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| 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 | ||
| plague, pestilence, pest | ||
| epidemic disease any infectious disease that develops and spreads rapidly to many people | ||
| bubonic plague, glandular plague, pestis bubonica the most common form of the plague in humans; characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin; does not spread from person to person | ||
| plague pneumonia, pneumonic plague, pulmonic 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 | ||
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