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单词 influenza
释义

influenzan.

Brit. /ˌɪnflʊˈɛnzə/, U.S. /ˌɪnˌfluˈɛnzə/
Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian influenza.
Etymology: < Italian influenza (a1363 denoting any outbreak of an epidemic disease, 1667 probably denoting the specific viral disease described at sense 1; from 16th cent. with reference to diseases of animals), specific uses of influenza influence n. Compare French influenza (1782; < Italian). The word apparently came to English in connection with a particular outbreak of influenza which spread from Italy (compare quots. 1743, 1750 at sense 1).
1. An acute, highly infectious viral disease of humans, which typically occurs in seasonal (winter) outbreaks or as major epidemics or pandemics, is characterized by the sudden onset of fever and chills, headache, muscle pain, weakness, and cough, and can result in death (esp. in the elderly, and usually from viral or secondary bacterial pneumonia); (also) an outbreak, epidemic, or instance of this disease. Frequently with distinguishing word, usually indicating the geographical origin or viral source of an epidemic. Also (loosely): a relatively severe common cold or similar acute respiratory infection (cf. influenza cold n. at Compounds 2). Cf. flu n.Also with the, esp. in early use.Human influenza is caused by type A and B influenza viruses (see influenza virus n.).Spanish influenza: see the first element.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > fever > [noun] > influenza
influenza1743
grippe1775
lightning catarrh1836
flu1839
Spanish influenza1890
St. Kilda cold1897
Spanish flu1918
Asian flu1957
Asian influenza1957
Mao flu1968
Asian contagion1997
1743 London Mag. 145 News from Rome of a contagious Distemper raging there, call'd the Influenza.
1750 J. Huxham Ess. Fevers (ed. 2) ii. 20 The catarrhal Fever, which spread through all Europe under the Name of Influenza in the Spring 1743, frequently became pleuritic or peripneumonic.
1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 17 Confin'd to bed two days with new influenza.
1801 Ld. Nelson 5 June in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) IV. 403 In the St. George we have got the Influenza.
1816 J. Austen Emma I. 216 Mr. Wingfield told me that he had never known them [sc. colds] more general or heavy—except when it has been quite an influenza . View more context for this quotation
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. xxxv. 543 In the portion of the nineteenth century already elapsed, four influenzas have already occurred, viz., in 1803, 1831, 1834, and 1837.
1852 T. Thompson Ann. Influenza 2 In 1510, the first well described and widely-prevalent epidemic of Influenza appeared.
1888 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2) I. 1018 The practice, so common among the higher classes in this country, of designating as influenza any catarrhal attack that happens to be painful and distressing.
1919 M. Gyte Diary 2 Feb. (1999) 208 The influenza made terrible havoc in 1918. It seems abating but we hear of one now and then dying of pneumonia.
1959 P. Larkin Let. 26 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 308 Influenza retired briefly but returned in full force on Wednesday.
1968 Times 23 Dec. 6/2 He was not feeling his best and had what scientists felt could be the symptoms of Hongkong influenza.
1989 G. Mehta Raj xxi. 153 I suppose it is no surprise that the men are going down like ninepins to the influenza.
2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health i. 94 It is also safe to be given the following inactivated vaccines: cholera, diphtheria, haemophilus influenza type b, hepatitis A, [etc.].
2009 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 24 Sept. 68/3 The preoccupation with terrorism should not blind us to more likely threats..: a ‘mega-war’ and one or two pandemics such as influenza.
2. figurative. A prevailing craze; a disordered condition; an outbreak. Frequently with modifying word.
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the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [noun] > temporary desire
frenzy1632
mania1689
furor1704
influenza1773
rage1780
furore1790
monomania1834
bug1887
craze1887
enthusiasm1895
1773 J. Bryant New Syst. I. 199 The learned Michaelis..says, that it [sc. the attempt to derive all words from Hebrew] is the reigning influenza, to which all are liable, who make the Hebrew their principal study.
1784 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 268 The present influenza is the banko-mania.
1786 A. M. Bennett Juvenile Indiscretions I. 153 Mr. Downes was certainly smitten with Lavinia Orthodox, but not with the matrimonial influenza.
1806 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 1005/1 This cement influenza has at length affixed its mask on the East front of the Chapels.
1834 R. Southey Doctor I. 229 Such preachers have never failed to appear during the prevalence of any religious influenza.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. xiii. 333 Ballot-Box Influenza! One of the most dangerous Diseases of National Adolescence.
1891 Daily News 29 June 2/2 Some months ago the markets were said to be suffering from financial influenza.
1925 Biblical Rev. 10 101 Sadhu describes Modernism as a form of religious influenza.
1959 F. Warburg Occup. for Gentlemen ix. 197 These issues were inflamed by the Spanish political influenza and gripped a million minds.
1999 S. Pickering Little Fling 156 An influenza of wine-bibbing having recently spread through Carthage, Slubey soon stomped into the wine barrel, crushing grapes under words.
2007 Independent (Nexis) 26 Nov. 30 And so the financial influenza spread to Britain—where another risky and unsustainable financial experiment had been made possible by Thatcherite deregulation.
3. Any of various acute, usually severe, infectious respiratory diseases in domestic or wild animals; spec. such diseases caused by type A influenza viruses in horses, pigs, and certain other mammals. Later also: infection of birds, esp. poultry and wild waterfowl, with type A influenza viruses, which often results in little or no disease but may cause epidemics with a high mortality rate. Frequently with distinguishing word denoting the type of animal affected.avian, swine influenza: see the first element.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > other disorders of horses
trench?a1450
colt-evilc1460
affreyd?1523
cholera1566
crick1566
incording1566
leprosy1566
taint1566
eyesore1576
fistula1576
wrench1578
birth1600
garrot1600
stithy1600
stifling1601
stranglings1601
hungry evil1607
pose1607
crest-fall1609
pompardy1627
felteric1639
quick-scab1639
shingles1639
clap1684
sudden taking1688
bunches1706
flanks1706
strangles1706
chest-founderingc1720
body-founder1737
influenza1792
foundering1802
horse-sickness1822
stag-evil1823
strangullion1830
shivering1847
dourine1864
swamp fever1870
African horse sickness1874
horse-pox1884
African horse disease1888
wind-stroke1890
thump1891
leucoencephalitis1909
western equine encephalitis1933
stachybotryotoxicosis1945
rhinopneumonitis1957
1792 Bee 1 Aug. 118 Air being heavier, and more loaded with vapours as it approaches nearer to the earth, may be the reason why the influenza commonly seizes first upon dogs and horses.
1798 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses II. viii. 306 This influenza amongst horses, and the varieties of the horse, is vulgarly styled the distemper.
1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) xii. 258 Various names..influenza, distemper, catarrhal fever, and epidemic catarrh.
1872 H. W. Longfellow Jrnl. 26 Oct. in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) III. x. 209 An influenza is raging among the horses.
1920 J. W. Connaway Hog Cholera & Immature Corn (Univ. of Missouri Agric. Exper. Station Bull. 174) 10 (heading) ‘Swine Influenza’ or ‘Hog Flu’.
1974 M. W. Fox Understanding your Cat vi. 146 Protect it from a number of killers, especially feline distemper (Panleucopenia), feline influenza, and feline pneumonitis.
1981 A. Fraser in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Livestock & Poultry (1988) viii. 213/1 There is a combined horse vaccine against tetanus and influenza.
1984 G. Siegl in K. I. Berns Parvoviruses viii. 300 When the disease caused by the virus [sc. goose parvovirus] swept through Europe between 1962 and 1972 the related syndrome became known as ‘goose influenza’ in Hungary.
2009 I. Capua & D. J. Alexander Avian Influenza & Newcastle Dis. i. 1/1 Avian influenza (AI) represents one of the greatest concerns for public health that has emerged from the animal reservoir in recent times.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.See also influenza virus n.
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1803 Brit. Critic 22 196 At the Hospital, out of 100 influenza patients, not one died.
1847 Punch 13 238/1 At the beginning of this week, when the Influenza panic seemed at the highest..it was not a little gratifying to Mr. Punch to find that his contributors, though sick, were at their duty.
1871 Jrnl. Gynæcol. Soc. Boston 4 152 This malignity of the influenza epidemics is very remarkable.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 684 The chief characteristic of this influenza smell was its overpowering nastiness.
1901 W. B. Yeats Let. 5 Jan. (1994) III. 8 Excuse my delay in answering but I have had an influenza attack & have had other exciting episodes.
1922 A. Jekyll Kitchen Ess. 186 Numbers of influenza convalescents, too, get reduced by illness.
1970 Daily Tel. 12 Oct. 3/2 The Medical Research Council now requires that all influenza vaccines should contain 600 of the new international units of virus to each human dose.
1993 Insight 11 Oct. 16/3 The country is vulnerable to a disaster on the order of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic that claimed 20 million lives worldwide.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 2 Aug. (Week in Review section) 10/2 Every county should create an influenza action team run by the local health department and including parents and school administrators.
C2.
influenza bacillus n. now historical a bacillus believed to cause influenza; spec. the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae, now recognized as a cause of pneumonia, meningitis, and conjunctivitis, esp. in children.
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1889 Med. Rec. 14 Dec. 661/1 We anxiously await the announcement of the discovery of the influenza bacillus.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 681 In some of these [sc. patches of solid lung] the influenza bacillus has been found, thus shewing the disease in truth to be influenzal pneumonia.
1929 Lancet 19 Jan. 139/1 There is general agreement..that the more serious complications [of influenza], such as broncho-pneumonia, are caused principally by the pneumococcus, streptococcus, and influenza bacillus in varying combination.
1998 Seminars Pediatric Infectious Dis. 9 77/1 Haemophilus influenzae is a small, gram-negative pleomorphic coccobacillus initially known as the Pfeiffer influenza bacillus.
influenza cold n. now rare a common cold or other minor illness with symptoms thought to resemble those of influenza; (also) a mild case of influenza.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > common cold or catarrh
poseOE
rheuma1398
cold?a1425
snekec1440
refraidourc1450
murr1451
gravedity1547
coldment1578
snorea1585
catarrh1588
coqueluche1611
gravediny1620
coryza1634
snurl1674
catch-cold1706
gravedo1706
common cold1713
coolth?1748
snuffles1770
snifters1808
influenza cold1811
snaffles1822
the sniffles1825
snuffiness1834
crying cold1843
flu1899
1811 P. Dealtry Let. 17 Mar. in S. Parr Wks. (1828) VIII. 362 My mother has been very ill of a sort of influenza cold, which in her weak state was very oppressing.
1896 Daily News 15 July 5/3 More than one bacillus, closely allied to the influenza bacillus, but differing from it in some biological and microscopical features, has been found in seven out of eight cases of ‘influenza cold’.
1908 D. Whittington Cat Man. 88 If the cat's mouth begins to dribble it may be concluded that it has got a regular influenza cold which requires careful nursing.
1937 Lancet 27 Mar. 748/1 Treatment was stopped on the 71st day on account of an influenza cold.

Derivatives

ˌinfluˈenza-ish adj. rare feeling or looking as if one is suffering from influenza; resembling influenza.
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1841 R. Oastler Fleet Papers I. No. 14. 105 The atmosphere is gloomy—and I am influenzaish.
1910 A. Bennett Jrnl. 7 Sept. (1932) I. 380 Being unable to get rid of influenza-ish inquietudes of the stomach,..I stayed in bed to-day.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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