Meanings of bubo in English

Swelling of the glands in the groin is common, called a bubo.

Salve can be dabbed to a burn or a swelling bubo.

Still, if you wake up with a bubo on your groin, better see a doctor all the same.

Pliny, in describing this bird, says, "bubo funebris et maxime abominatus"; whilst Chaucer writes: "The owl eke that of death the bode ybringeth."

They free suspected coup leader and former navy chief, Bubo Na Tchuto.

Phidias made them, and Bubo and Bombax dressed them in purple.

And soon there appeared upon her body four buboes, of which she was afterwards cured.

Externally.-Theroot is used as a poultice for tumors, lazy ulcers, buboes, carbuncles, stings of insects.

Maybe what this kid had were buboes.

For pain, morphine; for weakness, stimulation; for fever, bathing; for buboes, application of ice, injection of bichloride and excision have been advised.

Thank Zeus they clipped Bubo's wings -Ray Harryhausen's pathetic mechanical owl from the original movie only gets a tiny cameo here.

The Black Death gave people hard, swollen, black spots they called "plague roses," or buboes, surrounded by a pale ring.

Johnson mentions a boy of seven with severe gonorrhea complicated with buboes which he had contracted from a servant girl with whom he slept.

"Ignarres bubo dirum mortalibus omen," said Ovid; whilst speaking of the fatal prognostications of the crow Virgil wrote: