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Noun: pulmonic 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
    - pneumonic plague, plague pneumonia

Derived forms: pulmonic plagues

Type of: pest, pestilence, pestis, plague