Pestis may refer to:
- Plague (disease)
- Yersinia pestis, a Gram-negative rod-shaped bacterium species
- Pestilence (disambiguation)
- Pestis (Roman mythology), the daemon/personification of pestilence, plague, illness, sickness and disease
- Scrutinium Pestis, a 1658 book by Athanasius Kircher
Places
edit- Pestiš, a village in the municipality of Prokuplje, Serbia
- Peștiș, a village in Aleșd town, Bihor County, Romania
- Peștiș (Cerna), a tributary of the Cerna in Hunedoara County, Romania
- Peștiș (Mureș), a tributary of the Mureș in Arad and Timiș Counties, Romania
See also
edit- Nosology, a branch of medicine that deals with classification of diseases