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flu
  1. Influenza.
  2. (informal) Stomach flu.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “A cold or flu may also spread to the lower respiratory tract to cause a cough.”
      “Imagine a needleless syringe bigger than the one used to give you a flu shot.”
      “When a flu virus enters your nose, it latches onto the first thing it finds with a neuraminic acid on it, mucus.”
influenza
  1. (medicine) An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Severe influenza or infectious pneumonia is not infrequently followed by myocarditis.”
      “He's completely changed his plans and will have to move in a week on Wednesday, when the influenza will have gone.”
      “This plant is useful for both acute and chronic respiratory diseases, including acute influenza, earache, sinusitis and sore throat.”
influenzavirus
  1. Any of a group of viruses, in family Orthomyxoviridae, that cause influenza.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The efficacy of live attenuated, cold-adapted, trivalent, intranasal influenzavirus vaccine in children.”
influenzaviruses
  1. plural of influenzavirus
influenzas
  1. plural of influenza
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Under such a situation, physicians will want to only prescribe such therapies to patients infected with the lethal virus, as opposed to the seasonal influenzas.”
flus
  1. plural of flu
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  3. Examples:
    1. “You won't just read me complaining about morning sickness, stomach flus, truncated naps, and poopy diaper emergencies.”
      “It's as if Hollywood were experiencing some unusual fabric shortage, and I wouldn't be surprised if a legion of actresses have colds or flus by morning after.”
      “Known properties: Traditionnally used in Western Herbalism for colds, flus and fevers because of its diaphoretic or sweat-inducing properties.”
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