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Spanish influenza

noun Pathology.

the pandemic respiratory infection that spread throughout the world during 1917–18.

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spanish influenza in Medicine

Spanish influenza

[spăn′ĭsh]

n.

Influenza that caused several waves of pandemic in 1918-1919, resulting in over 20 million deaths worldwide.

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