单词 | the plague |
释义 | > as lemmasthe plague c. spec. An infectious disease characterized by high fever, initial involvement usually of lymph nodes or the lungs, haemorrhage, and shock, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, chiefly transmitted to humans from rodents (or other mammals) by fleas, and occurring as isolated cases, small outbreaks, and major pandemics; an outbreak or occurrence of this. Frequently in the plague. Cf. pest n. 1, pestilence n. 1.In early use difficult to distinguish from sense 3b.There are two main forms of the disease in humans: bubonic plague, in which buboes are formed, usually in the inguinal lymph nodes (see bubonic adj.1 and n.), and pneumonic plague, in which there is primary involvement of the lungs (see pneumonic adj. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > plague or pestilence > [noun] > bubonic plague pestilencea1382 plague1522 cannikin1612 black plague1626 Black Death1755 bubonic plague1803 bubo plague1833 bubonic1901 1522 R. Langton Pilgrimage (1924) 29 The ymage of our lady that was sene wepynge..whan the plage reygned at Venyce. 1546 Rep. Commissioners 221 In tyme of syknes, as the plage and suche lyke dysseses dothe Chaunce w[i]t[h]in the seyde Towne, than alle suche infectyue persons, w[i]t[h] many other ympotent and pore peaple, dothe to the seyd Chapelle resort ffor there dyuyne seruyce. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Comm. This sommer the rage of [th]e plague made a great slaughter at Paris. 1639 J. Woodall Treat. Plague in Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 323 The Plague is a disease venemous and contagious. 1645 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 635 And it is a common speech with us, when a house hath the Plague, which is one of the highest stroaks of temporal affliction, we use to say, Such a house is visited. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 22 July (1972) VI. 165 His servant died of a Bubo on his right groine, and two Spots on his right thigh, which is the plague. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 1 It was about the Beginning of September 1664, that I..heard..that the Plague was return'd again in Holland. 1734 J. Vanderlint Money answers All Things 37 People increased..so as to double themselves in London in 40 years, notwithstanding the last great Plague. 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 411 No nation was ever long engaged in a war with the Turks without taking the plague. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 61 Some Muslims even shut themselves up during the prevalence of plague. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. ii. i. 188 Plague. (Pestilentia.)..A contagious fever, closely resembling typhus in its symptoms, but distinguished from it by the absence of any true rash, and by the development of buboes and carbuncles. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 292 The rat-flea in India is the disseminator of the plague when it bites man after having sucked the blood of a rat infected with the plague bacillus (Bacillus pestis). 1994 Times 1 Oct. 1/3 Doctors in Britain yesterday examined eight people suspected of having the plague. All were later found to have influenza. < as lemmas |
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