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SWINE INFLUENZA

Specialty Definition: SWINE INFLUENZA

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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)

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Crosswords: SWINE INFLUENZA

Specialty definitions using "SWINE INFLUENZA": hog flupig flu, pig influenzaswine influenza virus, swine influenzavirus. (references)

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Photo Album: SWINE INFLUENZA

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Transmission electron micrograph of swine influenza virus. Credit: CDC.

Stored boxes of swine influenza vaccine. Credit: CDC.

Lab technicians reading and checking serologies to determine presence of influenza A/NJ/8/76 (Swine Flu) and registering antibody rise to the swine influenza virus during vaccine testing trials. Credit: CDC.

  

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

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Expression: SWINE INFLUENZA

Expression using "SWINE INFLUENZA": swine influenza virus. Additional references.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: SWINE INFLUENZA

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

swine influenza

19
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Modern Translation: SWINE INFLUENZA

Language Translations for "SWINE INFLUENZA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

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

   

Dutch

  

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

   

Finnish

  

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

   

French

  

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

   

German

  

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

   

Greek 

  

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

   

Italian

  

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

   

Pig Latin

  

inesway influenzaay

   

Spanish

  

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

   

Swedish

  

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: SWINE INFLUENZA

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

influenza suum. (various references)

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Anagrams: SWINE INFLUENZA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-i-l-n-n-n-s-u-w-z"

-4 letters: influenzas.

-5 letters: finalizes, influenza.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Images: Photo Album
3. Expressions
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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