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buboes

buboes is the plural of bubo.

buboes is the plural of buboe.

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

Questions about buboes

What is buboes the plural of?
Buboes is the plural of bubo.

Words near buboes in the dictionary

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

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