influenzaladj.

1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 518 The influenzal epidemic of the present period, in no instance, loses either its catarrhal form or nature.

1825 Sporting Mag. 16 354 Dependent on an influenzal state of the atmosphere.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 681 In some of these [patches of solid lung] the influenza bacillus has been found, thus shewing the disease in truth to be influenzal pneumonia.

1919 Lancet 15 Nov. 881/1 The increase in virulence of the secondary infecting agents as the result of their passage through the influenzal patient.

1937 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Med. Bacteriol. xxi. 245 The colonies of H. influenzæ, growing around a staphylococcal colony, are usually larger than the discrete influenzal colonies.

1955 Sci. News Let. 19 Mar. 190/2 Meningitis may also be caused by a germ called Hemophilus influenzae. This form is called influenzal meningitis, but has nothing to do with influenza.

1972 Daily Tel. 20 Jan. 7 A total of 180 people died during the week ending Jan. 7 from influenza and influenzal pneumonia.

2004 M. R. Smallman-Raynor & A. D. Cliff War Epidemics iv. 220 In Manoora, which was conveying 1,100 army officers and men to Western Australia, there was an outbreak of measles accompanied by an epidemic of an influenzal type of cold.

1895 Australasian Med. Gaz. 20 Dec. 471/2 Subsequent attacks are the rule rather than the exception. How many of the minor ones, however, are due to non-influenzal irritation of influenzally damaged structures remains to be settled by prolonged bacteriological examination.

1897 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Mar. 744/1 Ill influenzally.

1906 Daily Chron. 29 Mar. 5/1 On one occasion, when suffering from a cold, Smyth signed himself ‘Yours influenzally’.