Meaning of FLU
| Pronunciation: | | floo
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| | Definition: | | [n] an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease |
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| | Synonyms: | | grippe, influenza |
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| | See Also: | | Asiatic flu, contagion, contagious disease, respiratory disease, respiratory disorder | |
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| | Definition: | |  Flu
Through personal stories, modern research, and harrowing medical descriptions, a science writer chronicles the widespread devastation of the Great Flu Epidemic of 1918, a plague that killed 40 million people worldwide. Addressing both the layperson and scientists, the author claims that learning about the causes of this epidemic is the only way to prepare for and prevent future outbreaks of such magnitude. A New York Times Notable Book for 1999. more details ... |
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| | Definition: | | The disease caused by influenza viruses; influenza is an acute, potentially fatal and highly infectious disease which occurs usually via the respiratory tract. |
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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