bu'bo

PI. buboes. An inflammatory swelling of a lymphatic gland, usually an inguinal gland, seen most frequently after gonococcus infection. The term has been displaced largely by adenitis, bullet b. A hard, small b. as from an enlarged individual gland in syphilis, chancroidal b. Accompanying chancroid and generally suppurative, gonorrheal b. Accompanying gonococcus infection. dolent b. Hard, little, and tender, and showing no tendency to suppuration. malignant b. That characteristic of bubonic plague. pestilential b. See malignant b. syphilitic b. One or more separate glands, showing no tendency to suppuration, tuberculous b. One due to tuberculous infection of the gland, venereal b. One due to the infectious agents of gonorrhea or syphilis. [Gr., boubon, groin.]