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PIG FLU

Specialty Definition: PIG FLU

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Food & Agriculture

An acute highly contagious, respiratory disease caused primarily by a Type-A infuenza virus and characterized by depression, fever, anorexia, coughing, dyspnea, muscular weakness, prostration, and a mucous discharge from the eyes and nose. Pigs are the principal hosts of swine influenza virus, although infuenza viruses found in pigs also occur in man and birds. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Modern Translation: PIG FLU

Language Translations for "PIG FLU"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

svineinfluenza (hog flu, pig influenza, swine influenza). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

varkensinfluenza (hog flu, pig influenza, swine influenza). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sikainfluenssa (hog flu, pig influenza, swine influenza). (various references)

   

French

  

influenza porcine (pig influenza), influenza du porc (pig influenza), hog flu (pig influenza), grippe porcine (pig influenza), grippe du porc (pig influenza). (various references)

   

German

  

Influenza der Schweine (hog flu, pig influenza, swine influenza). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γρίππη των χοίρων (hog flu, pig influenza, swine influenza). (various references)

   

Italian

  

influenza suina (hog flu, pig influenza, swine influenza), influenza dei suini (hog flu, pig influenza, swine influenza), hog-flu (hog flu, pig influenza, swine influenza). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

igpay uflay

   

Spanish

  

gripe del cerdo (hog flu, pig influenza, swine influenza). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svininfluensa (hog flu, pig influenza, swine influenza). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: PIG FLU

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

influenza suum. (various references)

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Anagrams: PIG FLU

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-g-i-l-p-u"

-2 letters: flip, gulf, gulp, iglu, pfui, plug, puli.

-3 letters: fig, fil, flu, fug, gip, gul, lip, lug, pig, piu, pug, pul.

-4 letters: if, li, pi, up.

 Words containing the letters "f-g-i-l-p-u"
 

+1 letter: upfling.

 

+2 letters: fireplug, flumping, purfling, upflings.

 

+3 letters: fireplugs, purflings, upflowing, upfolding, uplifting.

 

+4 letters: sprightful, upflinging.

 

+5 letters: prestigeful.

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

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INDEX

1. Translations: Modern
2. Translations: Ancient
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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