Definitions for buboes

buboes bu·bo

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

Buboes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in buboes (bbeosu).

Definitions for buboes

noun

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

Origin of buboes

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

Examples for buboes

When he had said their companions had died of buboes, Ron Val had looked as if he thought he was out of his mind.

We have had three cases of buboes, resulting in three deaths.

Mortification of the buboes carried off such as experienced neither stupor nor frenzy, and they died at last exhausted by agony.

THE more buboes there are, so that they suppurate, the better.

It was not characterized by buboes, and it is very probable that it was largely smallpox.

buboes of the neck only occurred 130 times, and of them 67 cases were children.

The description which then follows of the buboes and of the disease is an exact counterpart of the present plague.

The ulcers from buboes partake of the same character, the edges being hard and the ulcer disposed to burrow.

If buboes accompany it, they are mostly of an indolent nature.

With the buboes and carbuncles, small red purplish spots (petechi), frequently appear on the body.

Word Value for buboes
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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