flu
• influenza, contagious viral disease characterized by fever and inflammation of the respiratory tract (medicine)
• flu is an illness which is like a bad cold. when you have flu, you feel weak and your muscles ache.
flu like
• resembling the flu, having symptoms like those of the flu
asian flu
• epidemic disease of the influenza virus that probably spread from asia; asian influenza; epidemic disease of influenza a in 1957-1958 that was first identified in china at the end of february 1957 (it spread to the united states by june 1957)
avian flu
• avian influenza, fowl plague, bird flu, acute and generally fatal viral infectious disease of chickens and other domestic and wild birds (characterized by fever, swollen head and neck, color of the comb and wattle is bluish-black, diarrhea and respiratory distress) which can infect humans and other animals (such as horses, pigs, seals and whales)
bird flu
• avian influenza, fowl plague, avian flu, acute and generally fatal viral infectious disease of chickens and other domestic and wild birds (characterized by fever, swollen head and neck, color of the comb and wattle is bluish-black, diarrhea and respiratory distress) which can infect humans and other animals (such as horses, pigs, seals and whales)
touch of the flu
• light case of the flu