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An acute form of hepatitis, transmitted by blood, sexual contact, and body fluids.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
an acute (sometimes fatal) form of viral hepatitis caused by a DNA virus that tends to persist in the blood serum and is transmitted by sexual contact or by transfusion or by ingestion of contaminated blood or other bodily fluids
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: serum hepatitis
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: viral hepatitis
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Azerbaijani:
hepatit B
— acute form of hepatitis
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Chinese Cantonese:
乙型肝炎
(jyut3 jing4 gon1 jim4)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Chinese Cantonese:
乙肝
(jyut3 gon1)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Chinese Cantonese:
B型肝炎
(bi1 jing4 gon1 jim4)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Chinese Cantonese:
B肝
(bi1 gon1)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Chinese Mandarin:
乙型肝炎
(yǐxíng gānyán)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Chinese Mandarin:
乙肝
(yǐgān)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Chinese Mandarin:
B型肝炎
(bìxíng gānyán)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Chinese Mandarin:
B肝
(bìgān)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Dutch:
hepatitis B
— acute form of hepatitis
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Finnish:
hepatiitti B
— acute form of hepatitis
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French:
hépatite B
— acute form of hepatitis
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German:
Hepatitis B
— acute form of hepatitis
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Italian:
epatite B
— acute form of hepatitis
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Japanese:
B型肝炎
(bī-gata kan'en)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Kazakh:
вирусты гепатит В
(virusty gepatit V)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Korean:
B형 간염
(bihyeong ganyeom)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Occitan:
epatiti B
— acute form of hepatitis
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Persian:
هپاتیت ب
(hepâtit-e bi or be)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Polish:
WZW typu A
— acute form of hepatitis
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Polish:
wirusowe zapalenie wątroby typu A
— acute form of hepatitis
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Portuguese:
hepatite B
— acute form of hepatitis
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Romanian:
hepatită B
— acute form of hepatitis
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Russian:
гепати́т B
(gepatít B)
— acute form of hepatitis
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Spanish:
hepatitis B
— acute form of hepatitis
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Swedish:
hepatit B
— acute form of hepatitis
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Vietnamese:
viêm gan B
— acute form of hepatitis
