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Pandemic of 1918-19
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influenza
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1743, borrowed during an outbreak of the disease in Europe, from Italian influenza "influenza, epidemic," originally "visitation, influence (of the stars)," from Medieval Latin influentia (see influence ). Used in Italian for diseases since at least 1504 ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Influenza \In`flu*en"za\, n. [It. influenza influence, an epidemic formerly attributed by astrologers to the influence of the heavenly bodies, influenza. See Influence .] (Med.) An epidemic viral infectious disease characterized by acute nasal catarrh, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN epidemic ▪ Did you know that poor little Edna died in the influenza epidemic ? ▪ The joy of the end to the war was marred, unfortunately, by a worldwide influenza epidemic . ▪ But when she was 6 her parents died in the ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Influenza , commonly known as "the flu ", is an infectious disease caused by an influenza virus . Symptoms can be mild to severe. The most common symptoms include: a high fever , runny nose , sore throat , muscle pains , headache , coughing , and feeling ...
Usage examples of influenza.
THE HEAVIEST BLOW of his young life befell John Adams on May 25, 1761, when his father, Deacon John, died at age seventy, the victim of epidemic influenza that took a heavy toll in eastern Massachusetts and on older people especially.
Alessandro Leto, who, barely recovered from a grave attack of influenza, kindly served as my guide among the archives of Assisi, deserves a very particular mention.
C, HIV, hemophilus influenza, and various diabetes genes are all owned by some entity.
At the moment, hepatitis C, HIV, hemophilus influenza, and various diabetes genes are all owned by some entity.
Ma anche nel matrimonio la prava istituzione pretesca semina e diffonde una diabolica influenza.
We suffered neither cold sores, influenza, bronchitis, pinkeye, nor the other ills that children bring home from school and pass on to their parents.
It was a narrow scrape for him, and then Olivia came down with a nasty case of influenza.
He also believed that Earth was not only seeded by life from space but also by many of its diseases, such as influenza and bubonic plague, and suggested at one point that humans evolved projecting noses with the nostrils underneath as a way of keeping cosmic pathogens from falling into them.
It was a sample of frozen sera we have that we suspect contains antisera to the influenza strain that caused the great epidemic in 1918 and 1919!
Smallpox, measles, influenza, and typhus competed for top rank among the killers.
They keep their teeth, they keep their digestions, they ward off gout and rheumatism, neuralgia and influenza and all those cognate decays that bend and wrinkle men and women in the middle years of existence.
She was piggybacking a mutagen to a weakened form of avian influenza for the pigeon problem.
How ironic to cheat the hangman only to die of influenza or something!
After what he'd seen on the post-Event mainland with influenza, mumps, and chicken pox, he believed every word of it.
The ones I've isolated for investigation in the lab aren't endemic to Britain, nor to California, but they can be imported just like influenza viruses and common colds.