| 词汇 | pandemic |
| 释义 | pandemic adjective medical specializeduk /pænˈdem.ɪk/ us /pænˈdem.ɪk/ (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants: （疾病）大规模流行的，广泛蔓延的 In some parts of the world malaria is still pandemic.在世界上一些地区疟疾仍在大规模流行。 A report on pandemic flu released last year said "the potential for catastrophe is immense." Experts estimated pandemic influenza might kill between 89,000 and 207,000 people in the United States. The WHO "Pandemic Control Room" is designed to map and track the spread of a pandemic virus. They prayed for an end to pandemic disease throughout the world. Disease & illness - general words advanced aggressiveness autoimmune disease bilharzia bilharziasis complication fulminating gestational hyperendemic hypochondriac iatrogenic industrial disease life-threatening schistosomiasis second degree secretory seizure serial interval snail fever untreated pandemic noun[ C ] medical specializeduk /pænˈdem.ɪk/ us /pænˈdem.ɪk/ a disease that exists in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals or plants: 大流行病 The COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United Kingdom in late January 2020. an influenza pandemic流感大爆发 The 1918 flu pandemic caused death and devastation on an unimaginable scale. Leading researchers believed a human pandemic was not only inevitable but overdue. The AIDS pandemic ravaged countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Disease & illness - general words advanced aggressiveness autoimmune disease bilharzia bilharziasis complication fulminating gestational hyperendemic hypochondriac iatrogenic industrial disease life-threatening schistosomiasis second degree secretory seizure serial interval snail fever untreated pandemic | American Dictionarypandemic noun[ C ] us/pænˈdem·ɪk/ a dangerous disease that infects many people at one time: What can be done to prevent a bird flu pandemic? pandemicadjective[ not gradable ]us/pænˈdem·ɪk/ Scientists who study viruses say they don't know what a pandemic strain would look like. Examples of pandemicpandemic Their arrival in the colony could not have been more badly timed, coinciding with the 1918 influenza pandemic. The extent of the public fears of such pandemics reflects a deeper absence of individual and institutional memories of similar diseases. It is not known where in the marine environment the pandemic strains originated, where and how the serovariants emerged, and how these strains spread. Indeed, these incongruities were sufficiently extensive to obscure even a pandemic of historic proportion. In the event of a pandemic, sudden deaths from circulatory disease are likely to occur. Since 1817, seven cholera pandemics have been recorded. This group includes the viruses that are now known to have been present in the pandemic 1918 strain. The pandemic elements, however, are an important part of the faunas also and enable the detailed international cor relation. Attempts to stop pandemics such as cholera sometimes included enforced isolation of the diseased. The present pandemic has been certainly due to the extent of travel between the previous foci and the increase of international and local travel. For example, neither directly addresses the biomedical models of the pandemic. Rather, research efforts should be directed toward simpler, more effective methods of halting this pandemic. This new pandemic has not yet been halted, and one must therefore expect that the disease will invade areas which have so far remained uninfected. In particular, an intensive effort is under way to find out how the pandemic 1918 strain caused such devastating disease. However, her attempts at understanding the socio-political factors and context, and analysing the spread of the pandemic, are simplistic and at times uninformed. See all examples of pandemic These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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