What does flu mean?
Definitions for flu
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Princeton's WordNet
influenza, flu, grippenoun
an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
Wiktionary
flunoun
Influenza.
flunoun
Common cold.
Etymology: A shortening of influenza.
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flu
The flu, or influenza, is a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory tract that primarily affects the nose, throat, and lungs. It typically presents with sudden onset of symptoms like fever, chills, muscle aches, headache, fatigue, sore throat, and cough. The illness can range from mild to severe, potentially causing complications such as pneumonia, heart problems, or death in people with weakened immune systems or other underlying conditions. It spreads primarily through respiratory droplets from coughing or sneezing, or by touching a surface contaminated by the virus and then touching the mouth or nose.
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Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'flu' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4168
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of flu in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of flu in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of flu in a Sentence
So many of these neglected tropical diseases are not acute infections like ... the flu or common cold, many are chronic, debilitating conditions that mimic non-communicable diseases ... If somebody has epilepsy, they don't think of cysticercosis ... If a child tests poorly in school, the pediatrician or nurse practitioner won't think of toxocariasis.
This year our society has opened up more and masks have become less apparent so it’s likely we will see more flu cases this year.
On the basis of this data, we do think the intranasal flu vaccine (LAIV) is safe in children with egg allergy, we still need to analyze our data with regards to safety in children who also have asthma, but the preliminary data indicates that children with well-controlled asthma who are well at the time of vaccination do not experience any significant respiratory problems following LAIV.
When a mother who refused the flu vaccine delivers, her newborn baby is more likely to contract influenza and more likely to require hospitalization compared to babies born to mothers who were vaccinated during pregnancy.
Ironically, the very first time the Prizes were presented was June 1917 — less than a year before the 1918 outbreak of the Spanish Flu pandemic, during this season of unprecedented uncertainty, one thing we know for sure is that journalism never stops.
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- griepAfrikaans
- أنفلونزا, إنفلونزاArabic
- qripAzerbaijani
- грыпBelarusian
- инфлуе́нца, грипBulgarian
- ইনফ্লুয়েঞ্জাBengali
- ཚད་རིམས།Tibetan Standard
- chřipkaCzech
- influenzaDanish
- GrippeGerman
- γρίπηGreek
- gripoEsperanto
- gripeSpanish
- grippEstonian
- انفلوانزا, آنفلوآنزاPersian
- influenssaFinnish
- grippeFrench
- cnatan mòrScottish Gaelic
- שפעתHebrew
- इनफ़्लुएंज़ाHindi
- influenzaHungarian
- գրիպArmenian
- influenzaIndonesian
- inflúensa, flensaIcelandic
- influenzaItalian
- 流行性感冒, ウイルス性の風邪, 風邪Japanese
- გრიპი, ინფლუენციაGeorgian
- тұмауKazakh
- គ្រុនផ្ដាសាយ, ជំងឺគ្រុនផ្ដាសាយKhmer
- ಇನ್ಫ್ಲುಯೆನ್ಜKannada
- 인플루엔자Korean
- грипп, тумооKyrgyz
- influentiaLatin
- GrippLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- ໄຂ້ຫວັດໃຫຍ່Lao
- gripasLithuanian
- gripaLatvian
- грипMacedonian
- ഇൻഫ്ലുവെൻസMalayalam
- ханиад, томууMongolian
- influenzaMalay
- တုတ်ကွေးရောဂါBurmese
- griepDutch
- tahoniigááhNavajo, Navaho
- grypaPolish
- gripePortuguese
- gripăRomanian
- грипп, инфлюэ́нцаRussian
- grip, инфлуенца, influenca, грипSerbo-Croatian
- chrípkaSlovak
- gripaSlovene
- gripAlbanian
- flunsa, influensaSwedish
- இன்ஃபுளுவென்சாTamil
- ఫ్లూTelugu
- гриппTajik
- ไข้หวัดใหญ่Thai
- gripTurkmen
- trangkasoTagalog
- gripTurkish
- гриппTatar
- грипUkrainian
- grippUzbek
- bệnh cúm, cúmVietnamese
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