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Influenza

Influenza Meaning & Definition
Influenza Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Influenza?

[n] an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease

Synonyms | Synonyms for Influenza: flu | grippe

Related Terms | Find terms related to Influenza: acute articular rheumatism | acute bronchitis | adenoiditis | African lethargy | ague | alkali disease | aluminosis | amebiasis | amebic dysentery | amygdalitis | anthracosilicosis | anthracosis | anthrax | asbestosis | Asiatic cholera | Asiatic flu | asthma | atypical pneumonia | bacillary dysentery | bastard measles | bituminosis | black death | black fever | black lung | blackwater fever | breakbone fever | bronchial pneumonia | bronchiectasis | bronchiolitis | bronchitis | bronchopneumonia | brucellosis | bubonic plague | cachectic fever | catarrh | cerebral rheumatism | Chagres fever | chalicosis | chicken pox | cholera | chronic bronchitis | cold | collapsed lung | common cold | coniosis | coryza | cowpox | croup | croupous pneumonia | dandy fever | deer fly fever | dengue | dengue fever | diphtheria | double pneumonia | dry pleurisy | dumdum fever | dysentery | elephantiasis | emphysema | empyema | encephalitis lethargica | enteric fever | epidemic pleurodynia | erysipelas | famine fever | fibrinous pneumonia | five-day fever | frambesia | German measles | glandular fever | hansenosis | Haverhill fever | hay fever | hepatitis | herpes | herpes simplex | herpes zoster | histoplasmosis | Hong Kong flu | hookworm | hydrophobia | infantile paralysis | infectious mononucleosis | inflammatory rheumatism | jail fever | jungle rot | kala azar | kissing disease | la grippe | laryngitis | lepra | leprosy | leptospirosis | lipoid pneumonia | loa loa | loaiasis | lobar pneumonia | lockjaw | lung cancer | lung fever | madness | malaria | malarial fever | marsh fever | measles | meningitis | milzbrand | mumps | ornithosis | osteomyelitis | paratyphoid fever | parotitis | parrot fever | pertussis | pharyngitis | pleurisy | pleuritis | pneumococcal pneumonia | pneumoconiosis | pneumonia | pneumonic fever | pneumothorax | polio | poliomyelitis | polyarthritis rheumatism | ponos | psittacosis | quinsy | rabbit fever | rabies | rat-bite fever | relapsing fever | rheum | rheumatic fever | rickettsialpox | ringworm | rubella | rubeola | scarlatina | scarlet fever | schistosomiasis | septic sore throat | shingles | siderosis | silicosis | sleeping sickness | sleepy sickness | smallpox | snail fever | sore throat | splenic fever | spotted fever | strep throat | swamp fever | swine flu | tetanus | the sniffles | the snuffles | thrush | tinea | tonsilitis | trench fever | trench mouth | tuberculosis | tularemia | typhoid | typhoid fever | typhus | typhus fever | undulant fever | vaccinia | varicella | variola | venereal disease | viral dysentery | virus pneumonia | wet pleurisy | whooping cough | yaws | yellow fever | yellow jack | zona | zoster

See Also | Asiatic flu | contagion | contagious disease | respiratory disease | respiratory disorder

Influenza In Webster's Dictionary

\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 affection characterized by acute nasal catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually accompanied by fever.

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