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a respiratory disorder, often of allergic origin, characterized by difficulty in breathing, wheezing, and a sense of constriction in the chest
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infestation of the intestines with the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, causing abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, weight loss, etc
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a form of skin cancer found in Africans and more recently in victims of AIDS
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an infectious fungal skin disease of man and some domestic animals, characterized by formation of a honeycomb-like mass of roundish dry cup-shaped crusts
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a degenerative disease of the arteries characterized by patchy thickening of the inner lining of the arterial walls, caused by deposits of fatty material; a form of arteriosclerosis
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British English: flu
/fluː/ NOUN
Flu is an illness caused by a virus. The symptoms are like those of a bad cold, but more serious.
He had flu.
- American English: flu
- Arabic: الإنْفلوانزا
- Brazilian Portuguese: gripe
- Chinese: 流感
- Croatian: gripa
- Czech: chřipka
- Danish: influenza
- Dutch: griep
- European Spanish: gripe
- Finnish: flunssa
- French: grippe
- German: Grippe
- Greek: γρίπη
- Italian: influenza
- Japanese: インフルエンザ
- Korean: 독감
- Norwegian: influensa
- Polish: grypa
- European Portuguese: gripe
- Romanian: gripă
- Russian: грипп
- Latin American Spanish: gripe
- Swedish: influensa
- Thai: ไข้หวัดใหญ่
- Turkish: grip
- Ukrainian: грип
- Vietnamese: bệnh cúm
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