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Hay Fever

Definition: Hay Fever

Hay Fever

Noun

1. A seasonal rhinitis resulting from an allergic reaction to pollen.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Specialty Definitions: Hay Fever

DomainDefinitions

Health

A seasonal variety of allergic rhinitis, marked by acute conjunctivitis with lacrimation and itching, regarded as an allergic condition triggered by specific allergens. (references)

Medicine

A form of atopy characterized by an acute irritative inflammation of the mucuous membranes of the eyes and upper respiratory passages accompanied by itching and profuse watery secretion, followed occasionally by bronchitis and asthma. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Hay Fever

Synonym: pollinosis (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Hay Fever

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disease

Ague, angina pectoris, appendicitis; Asiatic cholera, spasmodic cholera; biliary calculus, kidney stone, black death, bubonic plague, pneumonic plague; blennorrhagia, blennorrhoea; blood poisoning, bloodstroke, bloody flux, brash; breakbone fever, dengue fever, malarial fever, Q-fever; heart attack, cardiac arrest, cardiomyopathy; hardening of the arteries, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis; bronchocele, canker rash, cardialgia, carditis, endocarditis; cholera, asphyxia; chlorosis, chorea, cynanche, dartre; enanthem, enanthema; erysipelas; exanthem, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis, pneumonia, psora, pyaemia, pyrosis, quinsy, rachitis, ringworm, rubeola, St. Vitus's dance, scabies, scarlatina, scarlet fever, scrofula, seasickness, struma, syntexis, tetanus, tetter, tonsillitis, tonsilitis, tracheocele, trachoma, trismus, varicella, varicosis, variola, water qualm, whooping cough; yellow fever, yellow jack.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Hay Fever

English words defined with "hay fever": ambrosiabitterweed, burweed marsh elderfalse ragweedIva xanthifoliaragweed, Rose cold. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hay fever": Chlorpheniramine, ClemastineNasal Provocation TestsRespiratory Hypersensitivity, Rhinitis, Allergic, PerennialTripelennamine. (references)

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Modern Usage: Hay Fever

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Hay Fever (1968)

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Commercial Usage: Hay Fever

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References

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Cough, Cold, Allergy and Hay Fever Remedies (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Asthma and Hay Fever (reference)

  • Collected Plays: One: Hay Fever, the Vortex, Fallen Angels, Easy Virtue (reference)

  • Hay Fever (Saddle Club, No 34) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Hay Fever

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Hay fever ... / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by J. Mohr..

Oil! oil! she must have hay fever.Credit: Library of Congress.

"Darling, this is our last night together. Tomorrow my hay fever starts".Credit: Library of Congress.

  

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Hay Fever

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

If you have allergic rhinitis or hay fever, you can develop episodes of acute sinusitis. (references)

Pollen allergy, commonly called hay fever, is one of the most common chronic diseases in the United States. (references)

Generally, such people come from families in which allergies are commonnot necessarily food allergies but perhaps hay fever, asthma, or hives. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hay Fever

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

hay fever

389

hay fever relief

41

hay fever symptom

24

hay fever remedy

11

hay fever treatment

9

hay fever cure

8

allergy hay fever

6

hay fever natural remedy

4

hay fever in child

2

hay fever by noel coward

2

hay fever play

2

hay fever medicine

2
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Modern Translations: Hay Fever

Language Translations for "hay fever"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

alergji nga bari (haymaking-time-fever). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حمى القش. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

сенна треска. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

花粉過敏 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

senná rýma. (various references)

   

Danish

  

hoefeber (pollinosis), høfeber, allergisk rhinit (pollinosis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

hooikoorts (estivo-autumnal catarrh, pollinosis), ziekte van Bostock (pollinosis), rhinitis vasomotorica (allergic coryza, estivo-autumnal catarrh), rhinitis nervosa (estivo-autumnal catarrh), rhinitis anaphylactica (estivo-autumnal catarrh), rhinitis allergica (estivo-autumnal catarrh), rhinallergosis, catarre van Bostock (pollinosis). (various references)

   

French

  

rhume des foins. (various references)

   

German

  

heuschnupfen (hayfever, pollinosis). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πυρετός από χόρτο (pollinosis), είδοσ καταρροήσ, αλλεργική ρινίτις (allergic coryza, pollinosis). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ק"חת "שחת. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szénanátha (hayfever). (various references)

   

Italian

  

febbre da fieno. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

花粉症 (allergy to pollen), 枯草熱 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

かふ"しょう (allergy to pollen), "そうねつ. (various references)

   

Manx

  

streighyraght houree. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ayhay everfay

   

Portuguese

  

transformar em forragem. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

сенная лихорадка (haying-time-fever, haymaking-time-fever). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

polenska groznica (haying-time-fever). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fiebre de heno. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hösnuva (allergic coryza). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ไข้ละอองฟาง ที่มีอาการคันจมูก คันตา น้ำมูก น้ำตาไหล และจาม. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

saman nezlesi, bahar nezlesi. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

сінна гарячка (pollen fever). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

bệnh sốt mùa hè. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Hay Fever

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-h-r-v-y"

-2 letters: heaver.

-3 letters: every, faery, fever, feyer, haver, hayer, heave, heavy, reave, reefy, veery.

-4 letters: aery, aver, eave, eery, ever, eyer, eyra, eyre, fare, fave, fear, fere, frae, fray, free, hare, have, hear, here, rave, reef, rhea, vary, veer, vera, very, yare, yeah, year.

-5 letters: are, arf, ave, aye, ear, era, ere, eve, eye, far, fay, fee, feh, fer, fey, fry, hae, hay, her, hey, rah, ray, ree, ref, rev, rya, rye, var, vee, yah, yar, yea, yeh.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hay Fever


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 79      46 65 76 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01111001 00100000 01000110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#121 &#32 &#70 &#101 &#118 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 0079      0046 0065 0076 0065 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42679124071887184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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