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What are buboes?

What are buboes? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of bubo
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Though the bubonic plague's namesake buboes are not visible in the picture, their painful presence can be intuited from the victims' postures.
With the buboes and carbuncles, small red purplish spots, frequently appear on the body.
The ulcers from buboes partake of the same character, the edges being hard and the ulcer disposed to burrow.
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.
Mortification of the buboes carried off such as experienced neither stupor nor frenzy, and they died at last exhausted by agony.
Bubonic plague is characterized by painful, swollen lymph nodes called buboes that are often hot to the touch.

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