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  • Those enlarged lymph nodes are actually called bubos -- bubonic plague, thus the name -- fever, chills, prostration.

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2002 2002

  • And from that term "bubos," you get the term "bubonic" plague, and that is essentially where that term comes from.

    CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2003 2003

  • Shankers, cordee and bubos refer to the various swellings, sores and other ills associated with venereal diseases, including syphilis.

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  • Not to be pedantic, but bubos are the result of the Plague, not leprosy.

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  • The narrator then goes on to explain how "bike culture has evolved into a philosophical lifestyle where style and substance have converged," after which we see one of those color-coordinated fixed-gears that will soon come to symbolize the dubious fashions of "the Aughts" in the same way that acid wash came to symbolize the 1980s or leprous bubos came to represent the Middle Ages:

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  • On the following pages, we discuss some common diseases spread by sexual contact (STD): gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, and bubos.

    Chapter 25 1993

  • She had lanced the bubos of the stricken, she had poulticed their boils, and the dead she had prepared for the funeral pyre.

    Daughters of India 1908

  • In Bubonic plague, lymphatic glands (bubos) are swollen, but the

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • · enlarged, painful glands (lymph nodes, bubos) may develop in the groin

    Chapter 21 1997

  • · enlarged lymph nodes (bubos) may develop in the groin

    Chapter 32 1993

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