- Highly contagious viral infection - Respiratory disease - Viral infection - An epidemic affection characterized by acute nasal
catarrh, or by inflammation of the throat or the bronchi, and usually
accompanied by fever.
- An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent,
especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling,
painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever.
It sometimes creates danger of suffocation; -- called also squinancy,
and squinzey.