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bubo
Inflammatory swelling of one or more lymph node s, usually in the groin; the confluent mass of nodes usually suppurates and drains pus. [G. boubon, the groin, a swelling in the groin]
- bullet b. a hard, painless swelling of a gland in the groin, accompanying a chancre.
- chancroidal b. an ulcerating b., due to Haemophilus ducreyi. SYN: virulent b..
- indolent b. an indurated enlargement of an inguinal node.
- malignant b. the enlarged lymph node associated with bubonic plague.
- parotid b. a swelling of the parotid gland due to secondary septic infection.
- primary b. a b. occurring as the first sign of venereal infection.
- tropical b. SYN: venereal lymphogranuloma.
- venereal b. an enlarged gland in the groin associated with any sexually transmitted disease, especially chancroid.
- virulent b. SYN: chancroidal b..

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bu·bo 'b(y)ü-(.)bō n, pl buboes an inflammatory swelling of a lymph node esp. in the groin
bu·bon·ic b(y)ü-'bän-ik adj

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n.
a swollen inflamed lymph node in the armpit or groin, commonly developing in some sexually transmitted diseases (e.g. soft sore), bubonic plague, and leishmaniasis.

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bu·bo (buґbo) [L., from Gr. boubōn groin] a tender, enlarged, and inflamed lymph node, particularly in the axilla or groin, due to such infections as plague, syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, and tuberculosis. bubonic adj

Medical dictionary. 2011.