upper respiratory infection

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   infection of the upper respiratory tract

   Broaderrespiratory tract infection

Questions about upper respiratory infection

What does upper respiratory infection mean?

upper respiratory infection means "infection of the upper respiratory tract".

Is upper respiratory infection a common word?

upper respiratory infection 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.