influenza

IPA: ɪnfɫuˈɛnzʌ

(pathology) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.

Examples of "influenza" in Sentences

“The word influenza comes from the Old Italian,” she said.
The name influenza comes from the Italian: influenza, meaning
That's where the term influenza, the Italian word for influence, came from.
The name influenza comes from the Italian: influenza, meaning "influence" (Latin: influentia).
I had an unaccountable prostration of strength which they called influenza, but which, I believe, was nothing but some obstruction in the liver.
_ -- The term influenza is applied to a febrile, contagious, infectious disease of horses, which is characterized by a blood infection, with inflammation of the mucous membranes, which frequently involves the lungs.
I have lately had the epidemical distemper; I don't mean poverty, but that cold which they call the influenza, and which made its first appearance in London; [52] whether it came to Scotland in the wagon, or travelled with a companion in a post-chaise, is quite uncertain.