Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The presence of an abnormally large number of white blood cells with single nuclei in the bloodstream.
- noun Infectious mononucleosis.
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- noun pathology A
viral infection marked by extremefatigue , highfever , and swollenlymph nodes , caused by an unusually high number ofmonocytes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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-- RB Rolandon Finch, who had the end of his freshman year wiped out by mononucleosis, is expected back for spring.
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The virus that causes infectious mononucleosis is excreted for months, sometimes years, in body fluids, but only appears to be contagious during the early phase of the illness.
Medpundit 2003
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The virus that causes infectious mononucleosis is excreted for months, sometimes years, in body fluids, but only appears to be contagious during the early phase of the illness.
Archive 2003-05-01 2003
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The one time I asked to clock out early and go home was when I showed up with a viral infection called mononucleosis that I could have passed on to my co-workers and customers with a cough or a sneeze.
Elisa Batista: Lack of Paid Sick Days May Claim Latino Lives Elisa Batista 2011
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Also known as mononucleosis, EBV could hit teenagers especially hard.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Also known as mononucleosis, EBV could hit teenagers especially hard.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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The daughter - who we know is fertile because she's knocked up again, or maybe for the first time ... she did like take a five-month leave from high school because she had [uses fingers to indicate quote marks] 'mononucleosis' right around the time the baby was being born.
MRC Latest Headlines 2009
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The daughter - who we know is fertile because she's knocked up again, or maybe for the first time ... she did like take a five-month leave from high school because she had [uses fingers to indicate quote marks] 'mononucleosis' right around the time the baby was being born.
MRC Latest Headlines 2009
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The daughter - who we know is fertile because she's knocked up again, or maybe for the first time ... she did like take a five-month leave from high school because she had [uses fingers to indicate quote marks] 'mononucleosis' right around the time the baby was being born.
MRC Latest Headlines 2008
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MAHER: Okay, but she did like take a five-month leave from high school because she had [uses fingers to make quote marks] "mononucleosis" right around the time the baby was being born.
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