Definitions for influenza

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influenza in·flu·en·za

Spelling: [in-floo-en-zuh]

IPA: /ˌɪn fluˈɛn zə/

Influenza is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 21 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 25 points.

You can make 220 anagrams from letters in influenza (aefilnnuz).

Definitions for influenza

noun

1. 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.
2. 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.

Origin of influenza

1735-45; Italian Medieval Latin influentia influence

Examples for influenza

Then the researchers checked for blood levels of influenza antibodies a month later.

When Jones has the influenza, Brown dutifully catches cold in the head.

Though this too is debatable given that 25,000 to 40,000 people a year die of influenza—the vast majority of them unvaccinated.

With enough changing of the influenza RNA over time, the vaccine no longer provokes the “right” immune response.

I was told you had influenza, or cold: but I suppose that is all over by this time.

These new cases, both real and merely suspected, are coming right as we approach the cusp of influenza season.

The result is colds, pneumonia, influenza—eventually tuberculosis.

The lucky alarm of an influenza decided what might not have been decided quite so soon.

In 2009 nearly all influenza cases were caused by the pandemic H1N1 virus, driving the previously dominant H3N2 underground.

"Measles—or influenza," he said, with a pursing of the lips.