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common cold

noun as in communicable disease

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The vaccine is delivered through a “carrier virus” that causes a common cold in chimpanzees but does not affect humans.

It starts with symptoms that look a lot like a common cold, which then turn into weeks of uncontrollable coughing.

Medieval Europeans used it to treat the common cold and cough.

Simply because, like you, they recognize in this safe antiseptic a swift, effective enemy of sore throat and the common cold.

So far, none of the contagious infections except polio and the common cold had made the jump.

They tell me,” rejoined his Lordship, “that it is only a common cold, which you know I have had a thousand times.

We've won the greatest medical triumph of all times—the conquering of the Common Cold.

It's designed to show the men of the future how to do everything from treating a common cold to exploding nuclear power.

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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to common cold, such as: acute rhinitis, acute viral nasopharyngitis, catarrh, cold, and coryza.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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