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Definition of Black Death

1. Noun. The epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe.

Definition of Black Death

1. Proper noun. (disease historical) A pandemic outbreak (often attributed to bubonic plague) throughout Europe and most of Asia in the 14th century that killed nearly half the population of Europe and Asia. ¹

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Medical Definition of Black Death

1. 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. It still exists today and is characterised by sudden high fever, chills, excessively swollen and tender lymph nodes (buboes), followed by tissue bleeding and gangrene. Other complications include pneumonia and septicaemia. (12 Nov 1997)

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Literary usage of Black Death

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"The disease known as the black death made its first appearance in Europe at ... In August, a few cases of a disease supposed to be the black death were ..."

2. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an Encyclopedic Collection of by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1900)
"... that a major part of the knowledge on this subject of the English-reading populace has been derived. The Black Death, or. ..."

3. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1891)
"The invasion of the Black Death was part of the great human drama, ... Thus it becomes of interest to trace the antecedents of the Black Death before we ..."

4. Readings in English History Drawn from the Original Sources: Intended to by Edward Potts Cheyney (1922)
"THE Black Death AND ITS EFFECTS The following account of the Black Death was written by Henry Knighton, a clergyman connected with the church at Leicester, ..."

5. The Schools of Medieval England by Arthur Francis Leach (1915)
"CHAPTER X THE Black Death AND WINCHESTER COLLEGE THE Black Death of 1349, followed as it was by the Secunda Pestis of 1361 and a ..."

6. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Edward Potts Cheyney (1901)
"Black Death and Peasants Rebellion ileges, and organization which made it thereafter ... The Black Death and its Effects. — During the earlier mediaeval ..."

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