Meanings
- uncommonuncountablePlague.
page 198: [...] a name ordinarily given, then and for ages preceding, to the bubonic pestis. page 213: Another species of pestis in Sauvages Nosology is, from the accounts of various writers on the Lues bovilla, intimately connected with that [of distemper].
2014, John Baron, The Life of Edward Jenner M.D., Cambridge University Press, →ISBN
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna 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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pestis. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pestis
“pestis.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pestis. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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