intestinal flu

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   inflammation of the stomach and intestines; can be caused by Salmonella enteritidis

   Synonymsgastroenteritisstomach flu

   Broaderinflammatory disease

   Narrowercholera infantumcholera morbus

Questions about intestinal flu

What does intestinal flu mean?

intestinal flu means "inflammation of the stomach and intestines; can be caused by Salmonella enteritidis".

What is another word for intestinal flu?

Close synonyms include gastroenteritis, stomach flu. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intestinal flu a common word?

intestinal flu is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.