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Definition: Infectious Mononucleosis |
Infectious MononucleosisNoun1. 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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | A common, acute infection usually caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (Human herpesvirus 4). There is an increase in mononuclear white blood cells and other atypical lymphocytes, generalized lymphadenopathy, splenomegaly, and occasionally hepatomegaly with hepatitis. (references) |
Medicine | A communicable disease of unknown etiology, with fever, sore throat, generalized swollen lymph nodes. . . Also called Pfeiffer's disease, glandular fever, lymphocytic angina, monocytic angina. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Infectious MononucleosisSynonyms: glandular fever (n), kissing disease (n), mono (n), mononucleosis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Infectious Mononucleosis |
| English words defined with "infectious mononucleosis": EBV, Epstein-Barr virus ♦ Forssman antibody ♦ heterophil antibody, heterophil test, heterophile antibody. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "infectious mononucleosis": Epstein-Barr Virus Infections ♦ Herpesvirus 4, Human. (references) |
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 | At times non-infectious conjunctivitis, as well as other corneal abnormalities may manifest themselves due to the body's systemic response to viral infections such as infectious mononucleosis, or Epstein-Barr Virus.Credit: CDC. |  | Tongue and palate of patient with infectious mononucleosis.Credit: CDC. |
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Health | This group includes the herpes simplex virus that causes cold sores, fever blisters, mononucleosis, genital herpes a sexually transmitted disease, and Epstein-Barr virus involved in infectious mononucleosis. (references) | |
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| 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 |
infectious mononucleosis | 86 |
barr epstein infectious mononucleosis virus | 3 |
infectious mononucleosis picture | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "infectious mononucleosis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | mononukleose (glandular fever, monocytic angina, mononucleosis), mononucleosis infectiosa (glandular fever, monocytic angina). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | monocytenangina (monocytic angina), angina monocytotica (monocytic angina). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | mononucléose infectieuse, angine monocytes. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Monozytenangina (monocytic angina), lymphoidzellige Angina (monocytic angina). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | λοιμώδης μονοπυρήνωση (glandular fever, monocytic angina). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | mononucleosi infettiva (monocytic angina), angina monocitica di Pfeiffer (monocytic angina), angina linfomonocitica (monocytic angina), angina linfoidocellulare (monocytic angina). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | infectiousay ononucleosismay angina monocítica (monocytic angina). (various references) mononucleosis infecciosa, angina monocítica (monocytic angina). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 66 65 63 74 69 6F 75 73 4D 6F 6E 6F 6E 75 63 6C 65 6F 73 69 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100110 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01110101 01110011 00100000 01001101 01101111 01101110 01101111 01101110 01110101 01100011 01101100 01100101 01101111 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n f e c t i o u s   M o n o n u c l e o s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0066 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 0075 0073 004D 006F 006E 006F 006E 0075 0063 006C 0065 006F 0073 0069 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43807271698675818785247818081808769787181857585 |
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