ALL meanings of influenza
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I i - noun influenza viral disease 1
- noun influenza Pathology. an acute, commonly epidemic disease, occurring in several forms, caused by numerous rapidly mutating viral strains and characterized by respiratory symptoms and general prostration. Compare flu. 1
- noun influenza Veterinary Pathology. an acute, contagious disease occurring in horses and swine, characterized by fever, depression, and catarrhal inflammations of the eyes, nasal passages, and bronchi, and caused by a virus. 1
- noun influenza A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh, and often occurring in epidemics. 1
- noun influenza (pathology) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics. 0
- uncountable noun influenza Influenza is the same as flu. 0
- noun influenza a highly contagious and often epidemic viral disease characterized by fever, prostration, muscular aches and pains, and inflammation of the respiratory passages 0
- noun influenza an acute, contagious, infectious disease, caused by any of various viruses and characterized by inflammation of the respiratory tract, fever, and muscular pain 0
- noun influenza any of various viral diseases of domestic animals, characterized by inflammation of the respiratory tract 0