| has gloss | (noun) 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
pneumonic plague, pulmonic plague, plague pneumonia |
| has gloss | eng: Pneumonic plague is one of three main forms of plague, all of which are caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is more virulent and rarer than bubonic plague. The difference between the versions of plague is simply the location of the infection. Pneumonic plague is an infection in the lung(s), bubonic plague is an infection of the buboes or lymph nodes, while septicemic plague is an infection in the blood stream. |
| lexicalization | eng: plague pneumonia |
| lexicalization | eng: pneumonic plague |
| lexicalization | eng: pulmonic plague |
| subclass of | (noun) 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
pestis, plague, pestilence, pest |
