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What is the noun for bubo?

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bubo
  1. (pathology) An inflamed swelling of a lymph node, especially in the armpit or the groin, due to an infection such as bubonic plague, gonorrhea, tuberculosis or syphilis.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Remarkably, he inoculated himself with pus from a suppurating bubo to fortify himself against bubonic plague.”
      “The bubo may have opened, and started draining, and it may have been infectious.”
      “When the chancroid is healed and the bubo becomes a scar the disease is cured.”
bubonocele
  1. (medicine) An inguinal hernia, especially of the incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.
bubonoceles
  1. plural of bubonocele
buboes
  1. plural of bubo
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Bubonic plague is characterized by painful, swollen lymph nodes called buboes that are often hot to the touch.”
      “Though the bubonic plague's namesake buboes are not visible in the picture, their painful presence can be intuited from the victims' postures.”
      “The symptoms of plague were swollen lymph nodes in the armpits and groin known as buboes, hence Bubonic Plague, and death followed within hours or a few days at the most.”
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