The toxin that causes diphtheria is produced by a normally benign bacterium when infected with a certain virus.
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Diphtheria
//dɪfˈθɪə.ɹi.ə//
Synonyms for "diphtheria" (135 found)
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Noun(2 words)
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Noun(2 words)
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58 translations across 50 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- witseerkeel noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Arabic
1 entries- خُنَاق noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Armenian
1 entries- դիֆթերիա noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- difteriya noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
- qaraboğma noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Burmese
1 entries- ဆုံဆို့နာ noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Catalan
1 entries- diftèria noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Cebuano
1 entries- dipterya noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 白喉 noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
- 白喉病 noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Czech
1 entries- záškrt noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Danish
2 entries- difteri noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
- difteritis noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Dutch
1 entries- difterie noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Esperanto
1 entries- difterio noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Estonian
1 entries- difteeria noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Faroese
1 entries- difteritis noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Finnish
1 entries- kurkkumätä noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
French
1 entries- diphtérie noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Galician
2 entries- difteria noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
- garrotillo noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Georgian
1 entries- დიფთერია noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
German
1 entries- Diphtherie noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Greek
1 entries- διφθερίτιδα noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Gujarati
1 entries- ઘટસર્પ noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Hungarian
2 entries- diftéria noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
- torokgyík noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Icelandic
1 entries- barnaveiki noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Indonesian
1 entries- difteri noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Irish
1 entries- diftéire noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Italian
1 entries- difterite noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Japanese
1 entries- ジフテリア noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Kazakh
1 entries- дифтерия noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Khmer
1 entries- ខាន់ស្លាក់ noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Korean
1 entries- 디프테리아 noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Latvian
1 entries- difterija noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Lithuanian
1 entries- difterija noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Macedonian
1 entries- дифте́рија noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Malay
1 entries- difteria noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Persian
1 entries- دیفتری noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Polish
3 entries- błonica noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
- dyfteria noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
- dyfteryt noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Portuguese
1 entries- difteria noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Romanian
1 entries- difterie noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Russian
1 entries- дифтери́я noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- gušobolja noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Slovak
1 entries- záškrt noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Slovene
2 entries- davica noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
- difterija noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Spanish
1 entries- difteria noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Swahili
1 entries- dondakoo noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Swedish
1 entries- difteri noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Tagalog
1 entries- dipterya noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Thai
1 entries- คอตีบ noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Turkish
1 entries- difteri noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Uzbek
1 entries- difteriya noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bạch hầu noun (infectious disease of the upper respiratory tract)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
None of the family had been inoculated against diphtheria.
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Diphtheria was a common disease at the time.
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There had been a daughter, I heard, but she had died of diphtheria while on a visit to Birmingham.
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