bubo
nounUK /ˈbjuː.bəʊ/ · US /ˈbu.boʊ/
Etymology Late Middle English, from Medieval Latin būbō, from Ancient Greek βουβών (boubṓn, “groin, swelling”).
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Medicine, Pathology, Sciences An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, or syphilis.
- If a Bubo or Carbuncle appear, set on Leeches not far from it, if it be in an ignoble part; ...1661, Johann Jacob Wecker, Eighteen books of the secrets of art and nature: being the summe and substance of naturall philisophy ..., page 42:
- Derived terms
- buboed, bubonic, bubonocele, pseudobubo