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SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE

• SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE (noun)
The noun SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE has 1 sense:

1. an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person

Familiarity information: SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE used as a noun is very rare.

• SEPTICEMIC PLAGUE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("septicemic plague" is a kind of...):

pest; pestilence; pestis; plague (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)

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