Definitions for Bubo

Bubo bu·bo

Spelling: [byoo-boh, boo-]
IPA: /ˈbyu boʊ, ˈbu-/

Bubo is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in Bubo (bbou).

Definitions for Bubo

noun

  1. an inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland, especially in the groin or armpit.

Origin of Bubo

1350-1400; Middle English Late Latin Greek boubṓn literally, groin

Examples for Bubo

At that time a bubo was found in the left axilla, and there was well-marked lymphangitis of the right arm.

bubona (bubo′na), goddess of herdsmen, one of the rural divinities.

A specific fever attended with bubo of the inguinal and other glands, and occasionally with carbuncles.

Smears and cultures made from the bubo and spleen were positive for Bacillus pestis.

Phidias made them, and bubo and Bombax dressed them in purple.

In such cases the fight, which is the illness, takes place chiefly in the bubo.

No plague bacilli were found either in the bubo of the first or second order.

After the bubo has been opened the wound may take on the characters of a soft sore.

bubo, bū′bo, n. an inflammatory swelling of the glands in the groin or armpit.

When the chancroid is healed and the bubo becomes a scar the disease is cured.

Word Value for Bubo
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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