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Kissing disease

noun, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Mononucleosis. colloquial, uncountable

    "It was in a college, West Point, that infectious mononucleosis won a romantic reputation. . . . Investigators at a girls' school also found post-vacation peaks, and mono became known as the "kissing disease"."

  2. 2
    an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing wordnet

Etymology

So called because it may be transmitted through kissing.

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