What does "influenza" mean?

An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics.

What is a synonym for "influenza"?

Common synonyms include: flu, flu, grippe, grippe, acute articular rheumatism, acute bronchitis.

Pronounced //ˌɪn.fluˈɛn.zə//.

//ˌɪn.fluˈɛn.zə// noun

noun ·Common ·High school level

Noun

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An acute contagious disease of the upper airways and lungs, caused by a virus, which rapidly spreads around the world in seasonal epidemics. countable, uncountable
"In early 1919 the Board also issued a film, Dr Wise on Influenza, in which a character called 'Brown' spreads the disease by enacting poor behaviours. This did address transport - by boarding a crowded omnibus, "Brown may be scattering germs throughout the carriage and giving influenza to a number of people"."
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an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease wordnet