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Noun: pneumonic plague
  1. 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
    - pulmonic plague, plague pneumonia

Derived forms: pneumonic plagues

Type of: pest, pestilence, pestis, plague

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