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Bubonic plague
Bubonic plague "The most common form of the plague, named for the characteristic buboes -- buboes are enlarged lymph nodes (""swollen glands"") -- in the groin which are usually very tender and painful. Lymph nodes may be similarly affected elsewhere such as in the armpits and neck. Common but less specific features of the disease include headache, fever, chills, and weakness. "
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Plague
1. Any contagious epidemic disease that is deadly. 2. An infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis that can be spread from animals to humans and is normally spread to humans by fleas (called bubonic plague) or from person to person by respiratory droplets (called pnenmonic plague). Both forms have a high death rate.
Buboes
"The plural of ""bubo""."
Lymph
Consists primarily of a clear, yellowish fluid and white blood cells. Found in the lymphatic system.
Groin
The region of the body where the thigh and lower abdomen meet.
Disease
Illness or sickness often characterized by typical patient problems (symptoms) and physical findings (signs). Disruption sequence: The events that occur when a fetus that is developing normally is subjected to a destructive agent such as the rubella (German measles) virus.
Headache
Primary - includes tension (muscular contraction), vascular (migraine), and cluster headaches not caused by other underlying medical conditions. Secondary - includes headaches that result from other medical conditions. These may also be referred to as traction headaches or inflammatory headaches.
Fever
When body temperature rises above its normal level - defined as 98.6 degrees F, though it varies by individual and time of day. A fever is the sign of an immune system at work and usually indicates an infection.
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Bubo
A swollen, infected lymph node (especially in the groin). The node may enlarge enough that it begins to drain through the skin.
Buboes
"The plural of ""bubo""."
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BSL-3
Biosafety level 3. A level of biosafety considered appropriate for agents that may be transmitted by the respiratory route which can cause serious infection.
BSL-4
Biosafety level 4. The highest level of biosafety. This level is used for the diagnosis of exotic agents such as the Ebola virus that pose a high risk of life-threatening disease, which may be transmitted by the aerosol route and for which there is no vaccine or therapy.
BTE
Behind-the-ear.
Bubble boy disease
Severe combined immunodeficiency disease.
Buboes
"The plural of ""bubo""."
Bubonic plague
Buccal mucosa
The inner lining of the cheeks and lips.
Buffalo chest
A single chest cavity with no anatomic separation of the two hemithoraxes due, for example, to tension pneumothorax (air under pressure collapsing a lung). It is called buffalo chest because this anatomical peculiarity of the North American buffalo, or bison, helped the Indians of the Great Plains to kill them. A single Indian arrow to the chest frequently was enough to let air in to collapse both lungs and fell the breathless bison.
Bulbar
Pertaining to a bulb, in medicine any rounded mass of tissue (that is shaped somewhat like a crocus or tulip bulb).
Bulbar conjunctiva
That part of the conjunctiva, a clear membrane of the eye, which covers the outer surface of the eye.
Bulimia susceptibility gene
A gene that determines the susceptibility to developing bulimia, one disorder in the spectrum of eating disorders. There is now a substantial literature showing that bulimia is strongly familial and that the pronounced familial nature of bulimia is due largely to the additive effects of a number of genes. One bulimia susceptibility gene is known to be linked to chromosome 10p (the short arm of chromosome 10). Another susceptibility gene for bulimia may be on chromosome 14.
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