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buboe

buboe is the alternative form of bubo.

Meaning of bubo

Noun

bubo (plural bubos or buboes)

  1. An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.
    • If a Bubo or Carbuncle appear, set on Leeches not far from it, if it be in an ignoble part; ...1661, Johann Jacob Wecker, Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature: being the summe and substance of naturall philisophy ..., page 42

Forms of buboe

pluralbuboes

Questions about buboe

What is buboe the alternative form of?
Buboe is the alternative form of bubo.

Words near buboe in the dictionary

  1. Bublitzes
  2. Bubnell
  3. Bubnoff unit
  4. Bubnoff units
  5. bubo
  6. buboe
  7. buboed
  8. buboes
  9. Bubong
  10. Bubong Ilian
  11. Bubong Tawa-an

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