| pestis | Synonym: plague. Origin: L. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| pestis ambulans | ambulant plague |
| pestis bubonica | <microbiology> This rare bacterial infection due to Yersinia pestis. It can cause painful, enlarged lymph nodes, fever, headache and prostration 2-7 days after a flea bite. May also cause pneumonia and sepsis. Transmitted in rodents and humans via an infected flea bite. The incubation period is 2-10 days. Yersinia infection is now rare in Western countries. Third world countries (for example India) can have epidemics of Yersinia. Treatment with antibiotics is necessary or most individuals will die. Even with antibiotic treatment the death rate is 5%. (15 Nov 1997) |
| pestis fulminans | <microbiology> This rare bacterial infection due to Yersinia pestis. It can cause painful, enlarged lymph nodes, fever, headache and prostration 2-7 days after a flea bite. May also cause pneumonia and sepsis. Transmitted in rodents and humans via an infected flea bite. The incubation period is 2-10 days. Yersinia infection is now rare in Western countries. Third world countries (for example India) can have epidemics of Yersinia. Treatment with antibiotics is necessary or most individuals will die. Even with antibiotic treatment the death rate is 5%. (15 Nov 1997) |
| pestis major | <microbiology> This rare bacterial infection due to Yersinia pestis. It can cause painful, enlarged lymph nodes, fever, headache and prostration 2-7 days after a flea bite. May also cause pneumonia and sepsis. Transmitted in rodents and humans via an infected flea bite. The incubation period is 2-10 days. Yersinia infection is now rare in Western countries. Third world countries (for example India) can have epidemics of Yersinia. Treatment with antibiotics is necessary or most individuals will die. Even with antibiotic treatment the death rate is 5%. (15 Nov 1997) |
| pestis minor | ambulant plague |
| pestis siderans | A generally fatal form of plague in which there is an intense bacteraemia with symptoms of profound toxaemia. Synonym: pestis siderans. (05 Mar 2000) |
| pestivirus | A genus of flaviviridae, also known as mucosal disease virus group, which is not arthropod-borne. Transmission is by direct and indirect contact, and by transplacental and congenital transmission. Species include border disease virus, bovine viral diarrhoea virus (diarrhoea virus, bovine viral), and hog cholera virus. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pestivirus infections | Infections with viruses of the genus pestivirus, family flaviviridae. (12 Dec 1998) |
| pestle | An instrument in the shape of a rod with one rounded and weighted extremity, used for bruising, breaking, grinding, and mixing substances in a mortar. Origin: L. Pistillum, fr. Pinso, or piso, to pound (05 Mar 2000) |
Synonyms : Synergists, Pesticide
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Synonyms : Pestiviruses
Synonyms : Infections, Pestivirus, Infection, Pestivirus, Pestivirus Infection
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plague: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
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| pestis ambulans |
ambulant plague: a mild form of bubonic plague
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| pestle |
stamp: machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar grind, mash or pulverize in a mortar; "pestle the garlic"
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| pest |
A pest is an animal which has characteristics which people regard as injurious or unwanted. It is possible for an animal to be a pest in one setting but beneficial or domesticated in another (for example, European rabbits introduced to Australia caused ecological damage beyond the scale they inflicted in their natural habitat). ...
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A chemical that is used to kill insects and other pests.
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| pest | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease |
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| pest | exceedingly harmful |
| pest | likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease |
| pest | a club-shaped hand tool for grinding and mixing substances in a mortar |
| pest | a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone |
| pest | machine consisting of a heavy bar that moves vertically for pounding or crushing ores |
| pest | grind or pulverize in a pestle |