MONONUCLEOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mononucleosis mean? 

• MONONUCLEOSIS (noun)
  The noun MONONUCLEOSIS has 1 sense:

1. an acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing

  Familiarity information: MONONUCLEOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONONUCLEOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An acute disease characterized by fever and swollen lymph nodes and an abnormal increase of mononuclear leucocytes or monocytes in the bloodstream; not highly contagious; some believe it can be transmitted by kissing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

glandular fever; infectious mononucleosis; kissing disease; mono; mononucleosis

Hypernyms ("mononucleosis" is a kind of...):

infectious disease (a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact)

 Context examples 

An early post-transplant lymphoproliferative lesion characterized by immunoblastic proliferation and paracortical expansion as seen in infectious mononucleosis.

(Infectious Mononucleosis-Like Post-Transplant Lymphoproliferative Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

When infection first occurs in adolescence or young adulthood, EBV can lead to a syndrome of infectious mononucleosis characterized by prolonged fever, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes and fatigue.

(Epstein-Barr virus protein can “switch on” risk genes for autoimmune diseases, National Institutes of Health)

It causes infectious mononucleosis and has been associated with certain cancers, including Burkitt lymphoma, immunoblastic lymphoma, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

(EBV, NCI Dictionary)

A species of Herpetoviridae that is responsible for infectious mononucleosis (glandular fever).

(Epstein-Barr virus, NCI Thesaurus)

Presence of cold agglutinins may be indicative of mycoplasmal pneumonia, mononucleosis, mumps, measles, scarlet fever, some parasitic infections, cirrhosis of the liver, and some types of hemolytic anemia.

(Cold Agglutinin, NCI Thesaurus)

Infectious mononucleosis, or "mono", is an infection usually caused by the Epstein-Barr virus.

(Infectious Mononucleosis, NIH)

It is related to the viruses that cause chickenpox and infectious mononucleosis (mono).

(Cytomegalovirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Infection with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), the cause of infectious mononucleosis, has been associated with subsequent development of systemic lupus erythematosus and other chronic autoimmune illnesses, but the mechanisms behind this association have been unclear.

(Epstein-Barr virus protein can “switch on” risk genes for autoimmune diseases, National Institutes of Health)