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Guidance from the Los Angeles Unified School District says students can attend school with mild symptoms such as a runny nose or cold, but should stay home if they have vomiting, diarrhea, severe ...
In the beginning (phrase) Infinity plus one; Information wants to be free; Inherently funny word; Inside baseball (metaphor) An Irish solution to an Irish problem; Irrational exuberance; It was a dark and stormy night; It's better to burn out than to fade away; It's Britney, bitch; It's not you, it's me
In English-speaking countries, the common verbal response to another person's sneeze is "(God) bless you", or less commonly in the United States and Canada, "Gesundheit", the German word for health (and the response to sneezing in German-speaking countries). There are several proposed origins of the phrase "bless-you" for use in the context of ...
An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations would suggest; i.e. the words together have a meaning that is different from the dictionary definitions of the individual words (although some idioms do retain their literal meanings – see the example "kick the bucket" below).
For example, think of eating lunch at work in the summer versus the winter. Viruses spread more easily inside, because air flow and turnover is not as fast compared with the outdoors.
Signs and symptoms are also applied to physiological states outside the context of disease, as for example when referring to the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, or the symptoms of dehydration. Sometimes a disease may be present without showing any signs or symptoms when it is known as being asymptomatic. [13]
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