Main Entry: influenza
Pronunciation: "in-(")fl-'en-z&
Function: noun
: an acute highly contagious virus disease that is caused by various strains of orthomyxoviruses belonging to three major types now considered as three separate genera and that is characterized by sudden onset, fever, prostration, severe aches and pains, and progressive inflammation of the respiratory mucous membrane it has been put on this earth to ruin my week and force me to miss out on 2 gigs with my band, I hate being sick I hate it more then anything in the world I wish I could just reach into my body and just find that fucking influenza and choke the shit out of it and call it all the horrible things I can think of as it dies an excrutiatingly painful death. Fuck you Mr. flu I hope you rot in hell!
Pronunciation: "in-(")fl-'en-z&
Function: noun
: an acute highly contagious virus disease that is caused by various strains of orthomyxoviruses belonging to three major types now considered as three separate genera and that is characterized by sudden onset, fever, prostration, severe aches and pains, and progressive inflammation of the respiratory mucous membrane it has been put on this earth to ruin my week and force me to miss out on 2 gigs with my band, I hate being sick I hate it more then anything in the world I wish I could just reach into my body and just find that fucking influenza and choke the shit out of it and call it all the horrible things I can think of as it dies an excrutiatingly painful death. Fuck you Mr. flu I hope you rot in hell!