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glandular fever

glandular fever

noun

  1. another name for infectious mononucleosis
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of glandular fever1

First recorded in 1900–05
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His absence from the music video was officially explained as glandular fever but, in reality, he had suffered a mental breakdown.

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Freya Anderson, a relay gold medallist from Tokyo, contracted glandular fever this year and missed automatic qualification but has been picked.

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Freya Anderson, on her return from glandular fever, was third and requires a coaches' pick to make the team.

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Post-mortem tests showed she had contracted the Epstein-Barr virus - which causes glandular fever - the coroner was told.

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At the start of 1988, while suffering with glandular fever, Whitbread was advised to write her first autobiography to tell her side of the tale.

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