bubo

Inflammatory swelling of one or more lymph node s, usually in the groin; the confluent mass of nodes usually suppurates and drains pus. [G. boubon, the groin, a swelling in the groin]

- bullet b. a hard, painless swelling of a gland in the groin, accompanying a chancre.

- chancroidal b. an ulcerating b., due to Haemophilus ducreyi. SYN: virulent b..

- indolent b. an indurated enlargement of an inguinal node.

- malignant b. the enlarged lymph node associated with bubonic plague.

- parotid b. a swelling of the parotid gland due to secondary septic infection.

- primary b. a b. occurring as the first sign of venereal infection.

- tropical b. SYN: venereal lymphogranuloma.

- venereal b. an enlarged gland in the groin associated with any sexually transmitted disease, especially chancroid.

- virulent b. SYN: chancroidal b..

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bu·bo 'b(y)ü-(.)bō n, pl buboes an inflammatory swelling of a lymph node esp. in the groin

bu·bon·ic b(y)ü-'bän-ik adj

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n.

a swollen inflamed lymph node in the armpit or groin, commonly developing in some sexually transmitted diseases (e.g. soft sore), bubonic plague, and leishmaniasis.

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bu·bo (buґbo) [L., from Gr. boubōn groin] a tender, enlarged, and inflamed lymph node, particularly in the axilla or groin, due to such infections as plague, syphilis, gonorrhea, chancroid, lymphogranuloma venereum, and tuberculosis. bubonic adj