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. Peter Hotez:

   So many of these neglected tropical diseases are not acute infections like ... the flu or common cold, many are chronic, debilitating conditions that mimic non-communicable diseases ... If somebody has epilepsy, they don't think of cysticercosis ... If a child tests poorly in school, the pediatrician or nurse practitioner won't think of toxocariasis.

2. Christina Johns:

   I think that that's an important point that needs to be made, especially right now while we are still in the midst of this pandemic, 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.

3. Georges Benjamin:

   We’re focusing on those three, but there are others out there – the common cold and others.

4. Bruce Ribner:

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

5. James Gray:

   You can't really shoot there, there are 62 uncontacted tribes, and they will have your head. And even if they wouldn't have your head, if you had a common cold, for example, and you shook their hand and gave them it, they would die. They have no resistance to a lot of the diseases we have.