Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun septicemic_plague

1 sense of septicemic plague

Sense 1
septicemic plague -- (an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream; does not spread from person to person)
       => plague, pestilence, pest, pestis -- (a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal)