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Definition: Hay Fever |
Hay FeverNoun1. A seasonal rhinitis resulting from an allergic reaction to pollen. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
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) |
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Synonym: Hay FeverSynonym: pollinosis (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Hay Fever |
| English words defined with "hay fever": ambrosia ♦ bitterweed, burweed marsh elder ♦ false ragweed ♦ Iva xanthifolia ♦ ragweed, Rose cold. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hay fever": Chlorpheniramine, Clemastine ♦ Nasal Provocation Tests ♦ Respiratory Hypersensitivity, Rhinitis, Allergic, Perennial ♦ Tripelennamine. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Hay Fever (1968) | |
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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. | ||
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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 |
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| 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 transformar em forragem. (various references) сенная лихорадка (haying-time-fever, haymaking-time-fever). (various references) polenska groznica (haying-time-fever). (various references) fiebre de heno. (various references) hösnuva (allergic coryza). (various references) ไข้ละอองฟาง ที่มีอาการคันจมูก คันตา น้ำมูก น้ำตาไหล และจาม. (various references) saman nezlesi, bahar nezlesi. (various references) сінна гарячка (pollen fever). (various references) bệnh sốt mùa hè. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 61 79      46 65 76 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100001 01111001 00100000 01000110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H a y   F e v e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0061 0079      0046 0065 0076 0065 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42679124071887184 |
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