Definition
buboed
adjective
- affected by or characterized by buboes (swollen lymph nodes, especially those caused by plague or other infectious diseases)
Usage: medical; historical
Examples
- The buboed victims of the plague were isolated in quarantine.
- Medieval physicians struggled to treat buboed patients during epidemics.
- Historical accounts describe buboed corpses left in the streets.
- The buboed condition was a hallmark symptom of the Black Death.