1) Exclusively Saxon word 2) Exclusively Anglo word 3) Plague pandemic 4) Word of purely Anglo origin 5) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins
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The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346–53. Although there were several competing theories as to the etiology of the Black Death, analysis of DNA from victims in northern and southern Europe published in 20...
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Another term used to indicate Bubonic plague, a disease that has had a major impact on the history of the world. Caused by the bacterium, Yersinia pestis, and transmitted by fleas often found on rats, bubonic plague has killed over 50 million people over the centuries. Burrowing rodent populations across the world keep the disease present in the wo...
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• A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
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pandemic of plague (q.v.), probably both bubonic and pneumonic, the first onset of which ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a ... [28 related articles]
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Great epidemic of
plague, mainly the bubonic variant, that ravaged Europe in the mid-14th century. Contemporary estimates that it killed between one-third and half of the population (about 75...
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Synonym for Yersinina pestis ... <disease, organism> Yersinina pestis is a gram-negative, rod-shaped, faculatively anaerobic bacterial species in the family Enterobacteriaceae. ... It causes bubonic plaque, which is transmitted by rodent fleas. Historically known as the Black Plague, this disease devastated Europe and Asia in the 1300s. ... I...
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bubonic plague; see plague.
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(1347-1351) One of the most deadly pandemics in human history, widely thought to have been caused by
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Bubonic plague
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Black' death` A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. term applied to the worldwide epidemic of the 14th-century, of which some 60 million people are thought to have died; descriptions indicate that it was bubonic, septocemic, and pneumonic plague.
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Black Death: The Medieval black plague that ravaged Europe and killed a third of its population. It was due to the plague which is caused by a bacterium (Yersinia pestis) transmitted to humans from infected rats by the oriental rat flea. In 14<sup>th</sup>-century Europe, the victims of the Black Death had bleeding below the skin (subcu...
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n] - the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
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Bubonic plague - a bacterial disease that is often fatal and is transmitted between mammalian hosts by fleas.
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Black Plague noun the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
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Great epidemic of plague, mainly the bubonic variant, that ravaged Europe in the mid-14th century. Contemporary estimates th at it killed between one-third and half of the population (about 75 million people) are probably accurate. The cause of the plague was the bacterium
Yersinia pestis, transmitted by fleas that infeste...
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a form of bubonic plague that spread over Europe in the 14th century and killed an estimated quarter of the population.
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