Black Death
noun
1 Black Death
The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe.
synonym: Black Plague.
Dutch: pest, Zwarte Dood
Polish: czarna śmierć
Roget 655:
disease;
illness,
sickness
etc.
adj.;
ailing
&c.;
all the ills that flesh is heir to"
[Hamlet];
morbidity,
morbosity†;
infirmity,
ailment,
indisposition;
complaint,
disorder,
malady;
distemper,
distemperature†.
visitation,
attack,
seizure,
stroke,
fit.
delicacy,
loss of health,
invalidation,
cachexy†;
cachexia [Med.],
atrophy,
marasmus†;
indigestion,
dyspepsia;
decay
etc.
(deterioration)
659;
decline,
consumption,
palsy,
paralysis,
prostration.
taint,
pollution,
infection,
sepsis,
septicity†,
infestation;
epidemic,
pandemic,
endemic,
epizootic;
murrain,
plague,
pestilence,
pox.
sore,
ulcer,
abscess,
fester,
boil;
pimple,
wen
etc.
(swelling)
250;
carbuncle,
gathering,
imposthume†,
peccant humor,
issue;
rot,
canker,
cold sore,
fever sore;
cancer,
carcinoma,
leukemia,
neoplastic disease,
malignancy,
tumor;
caries,
mortification,
corruption,
gangrene,
sphacelus†,
sphacelation†,
leprosy;
eruption,
rash,
breaking out.
fever,
temperature,
calenture†;
inflammation.
ague,
angina pectoris [Lat.],
appendicitis;
Asiatic cholera†,
spasmodic cholera;
biliary calculus,
kidney stone,
black death,
bubonic plague,
pneumonic plague;
blennorrhagia†,
blennorrhoea†;
blood poisoning,
bloodstroke†,
bloody flux,
brash;
breakbone fever†,
dengue fever,
malarial fever,
Q-fever;
heart attack,
cardiac arrest,
cardiomyopathy [Med.];
hardening of the arteries,
arteriosclerosis,
atherosclerosis;
bronchocele [Med.],
canker rash,
cardialgia [Med.],
carditis [Med.],
endocarditis [Med.];
cholera,
asphyxia;
chlorosis,
chorea,
cynanche†,
dartre [Fr.];
enanthem†,
enanthema†;
erysipelas;
exanthem†,
exanthema;
gallstone,
goiter,
gonorrhea,
green sickness;
grip,
grippe,
influenza,
flu;
hay fever,
heartburn,
heaves,
rupture,
hernia,
hemorrhoids,
piles,
herpes,
itch,
king's evil,
lockjaw;
measles,
mumps†,
polio;
necrosis,
pertussis,
phthisis†,
pneumonia,
psora†,
pyaemia†,
pyrosis [Med.],
quinsy,
rachitis†,
ringworm,
rubeola,
St. Vitus's dance,
scabies,
scarlatina,
scarlet fever,
scrofula,
seasickness,
struma†,
syntexis†,
tetanus,
tetter†,
tonsillitis,
tonsilitis†,
tracheocele [Med.],
trachoma,
trismus [Med.],
varicella [Med.],
varicosis [Med.],
variola [Med.],
water qualm,
whooping cough;
yellow fever,
yellow jack.
fatal disease
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
dangerous illness,
galloping consumption,
churchyard cough;
general breaking up,
break up of the system.
[Disease of mind]
idiocy
etc.
499;
insanity
etc.
503.
martyr to disease;
cripple;
the halt the lame and the blind;"
valetudinary†,
valetudinarian;
invalid,
patient,
case;
sickroom,
sick-chamber.
[Science of disease]
pathology,
etiology,
nosology†.
[Veterinary]
anthrax,
bighead;
blackleg,
blackquarter†;
cattle plague,
glanders†,
mange,
scrapie,
milk sickness;
heartworm,
feline leukemia,
roundworms;
quarter-evil,
quarter-ill;
rinderpest.
[disease-causing agents]
virus,
bacterium,
bacteria.
[types of viruses]
DNA virus;
RNA virus.
[RNA viruses]
rhinovirus;
rhabdovirus;
picornavirus.
[DNA viruses]
herpesvirus;
cytomegalovirus,
CMV;
human immunodefficiency virus,
HIV.
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