Synonyms for common cold
com·mon cold

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1. common coldnoun

   Synonyms:
   viral, nasopharyngitis, coryza, acute

2. common coldnoun

   A very common, mild viral infection of the nose and throat, whose symptoms include sneezing, sniffling, a running or blocked nose, a sore throat, coughing and a headache.

   Synonyms:
   coryza, viral, acute, nasopharyngitis

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. cold, common coldnoun

   a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)

   "will they never find a cure for the common cold?"

   Synonyms:
   low temperature, coldness, frigidness, frigidity, cold

Matched Categories

1. • Communicable Disease
   • Respiratory Disease

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1. common cold

   Read the full text of the Common Cold poem by Ogden Nash on the Poetry.com website.

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1. Bruce Ribner:

   You can’t catch it like you get the common cold, we can handle this.

2. Sarah Combs:

   You name it -- anything from the common cold to pneumonia to having respiratory distress, meaning we need to get some support breathing, and they're just coming in in higher and higher numbers, in the summer, typically RSV is a non-issue. It's just not there.

3. Ogden Nash:

   A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

4. Christina Johns:

   It is difficult to tell the difference without a test. There are some trends. Typically for influenza, the clinical hallmark is high fever, and that occurs less so in the common cold and is not always a feature of Covid-19 infection.

5. Matthew Sims:

   So, for the common cold versions of the coronavirus, they tend to last a short time, but studies with SARS [Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome]and MERS [Middle East Respiratory Syndrome], the other two very serious coronaviruses, say they last a couple of years, two, threeyears, but it may actually last even longer than that if you have whats called natural boosting, which means the virus is circulating in the environment and youre exposed to it and that triggers your immune system to make new antibodies ...So thats one of the things were going to find out, how long do these antibodies last?