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
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
"On Friday, March 7th, Messrs. ——, on the instructions of the executors of the late Mr. ——, are selling by auction in pneumonia and acute influenzal pneu-built cottages situate in Chapel Street."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919 by Various
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
Perhaps we shall be able to differentiate the severer forms and recognize them from the beginning, as we have already done with regard to scarlatinal, gonorrheal, influenzal and other so-called rheumatisms.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
