influenza
noun
an acute, commonly epidemic disease, occurring in several forms, caused by numerous rapidly mutating viral strains and characterized by respiratory symptoms and general prostration.
influenzal
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a word derived from
influenza.
Example Sentences
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By contrast, this winter more young men and women have gone rapidly from influenza to influenzal pneumonia.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pseudomembrane sometimes present in influenzal tracheobronchitis is thinner and less pulpy than that of the earlier stages of diphtheria.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
Now influenzal bronchitis is markedly accompanied by an incessant cough and by grave general symptoms.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
The only noticeable difference between the epidemic and the sporadic cases is in the more general susceptibility to the infective agent, which gives the influenzal form an appearance of being more virulently infective.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Chevalier Jackson
This morning I was confined to my bed with the beginnings of a bad influenzal cold.
From The Blue Germ by Maurice Nicoll
