diphtheria• It may be short-term, for example as a protection against influenza, or almost life-long, for example against diphtheria.• The vaccine can be given at the same time as immunisations against diphtheria, whoopingcough and tetanus.• Children were carried off by diphtheria, scarletfever, and measles.• Do not understand your message of 31.10. reporting his death from diphtheria.• He has been very poorly indeed and the doctor says it is diphtheria.• Baby died of diphtheria last night.• The following summer William died of diphtheria.• Bubonic plague, typhoid, polio, diphtheria, tuberculosis, syphilis and gonorrhea still afflict much of the world.
Origindiphtheria
(1800-1900)Modern LatinGreekdiphthera“leather”; because of the hardened skin in the throat
VERB + DIPHTHERIA | DIPHTHERIA + NOUNVERB + DIPHTHERIA➤have, suffer from患白喉▸➤catch, contract, get感染白喉;染上白喉▸➤immunize sb against使某人對白喉具有免疫力◇Parents are advised to have their children immunized against diphtheria.建議家長讓孩子接種抗白喉疫苗。DIPHTHERIA + NOUN➤epidemic白喉流行▸➤vaccine白喉疫苗➡ topic at illness