Definition of pandemic in English:

pandemic

adjective panˈdɛmɪkpænˈdɛmɪk

(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
（疾病）在全国（或世界）流行的；泛流行的
Example sentencesExamples
- Film has become a pandemic obsession throughout our culture and even throughout the world.
- They appear to have reached pandemic status within urban areas and a cull is long overdue.
- Most topical is the risk of pandemic influenza, which seems to be the highest in three decades.
- The factors involved in the genesis of each pandemic virus are probably different.
- But pandemic influenza, appearing every few decades, has much more devastating consequences.
- This argues for the need to look at other ways to respond to a new flu strain which has pandemic potential.
- Imagine if you will you were a government which was aware of a global pandemic flu in the offing.
- It is a remarkable achievement which increases Britain's ability to cope with pandemic flu, should it happen.
- History has shown that pandemic strains of influenza viruses emerge as reassortants of human and avian viruses.
- Mr Abbott today announced that the government would speed up funding for research into pandemic influenza.
- Sars has revealed much about the way a pandemic illness can affect modern society - with massive consequences.
- It is not our principles that have spawned pandemic hatred of America in the Islamic world.
- The arrival of a pandemic influenza would trigger a reaction that would change the world overnight.
- The idea that this flu could reach pandemic proportions is a chilling thought.
- So why have British health authorities decided to launch a pandemic flu panic in Britain?
- The effectiveness of antivirals in the treatment of pandemic influenza is unclear.
- The Department of Health will also announce its revised pandemic flu contingency plan this week.
- Companies should prepare for a pandemic flu the way they would for a blizzard.
- It depends on what percentage of the population gets a pandemic flu strain.
- Even if nations vaccinate their entire populations, they will not remain immune to the pandemic shock.
Synonyms
widespread, prevalent, pervasive, rife, rampant, epidemic
universal, global

noun panˈdɛmɪkpænˈdɛmɪk

An outbreak of a pandemic disease.
大流行病
the results may have been skewed by an influenza pandemic
Example sentencesExamples
- There is, however, going to be another influenza pandemic some time soon.
- It will say that if a widely anticipated European flu pandemic hits, unhygienic doctors will contribute to the spread of the virus.
- In countries afflicted by epidemics and pandemics like HIV / AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, growth and development will be threatened until these scourges can be contained.
- Since the start of the pandemic two decades ago, 17 million Africans have died of it.
- Let's hope that this virus does not mutate and create a worldwide pandemic this winter.
- Women also face severe constraints because of outbreak of pandemics like HIV / AIDS and other diseases.
- Scotland will be hit by a deadly strain of the bird flu virus within three weeks of a pandemic starting in Asia, Scotland's top doctor has warned.
- In the case of the avian flu pandemic threat, millions of lives are potentially at stake.
- Is the Canadian plan to deal with the bird flu pandemic similar to that outlined by the president today?
- It is a small effort worth making if we want to avoid a descent into widespread anarchy, terrorism, pandemics of global disease, and other avoidable calamities.
- The European settling of the Americas brought disease pandemics to the Native Americans that nearly eliminated them as an ethnic classification.
- Don't expect to be able to buy most of these things when the pandemic starts.
- Last year, following a simulated exercise, the Ministry of Health developed a national pandemic plan.
- Influenza viruses cause frequent epidemics and periodic pandemics throughout the world due to antigenic variations.
- It is to be hoped that they are available before the next pandemic strikes.
- Influenza epidemics and pandemics spread rapidly causing a high degree of morbidity and mortality.
- Influenza pandemics are global outbreaks that emerge infrequently and unpredictably and involve strains of virus to which humans have little or no immunity.
- Two highly contagious enteroviruses are known to cause epidemics and pandemics of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis.
- Humans have lived with influenza viruses for centuries and we thought we knew all about their inter-host transmissions, antigenic shift, drift, epidemics, pandemics and vaccines.
- This poses the threat as external to France, in the same way that immigration, organised crime, disease pandemics and global warming are all feared as terrible external threats.
Synonyms
disease, sickness

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Greek pandēmos (from pan 'all' + dēmos 'people') + -ic.

Rhymes

academic, alchemic, endemic, epidemic, polemic, totemic

Definition of pandemic in US English:

pandemic

adjectivepænˈdɛmɪkpanˈdemik

(of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
（疾病）在全国（或世界）流行的；泛流行的
Example sentencesExamples
- The arrival of a pandemic influenza would trigger a reaction that would change the world overnight.
- The factors involved in the genesis of each pandemic virus are probably different.
- Film has become a pandemic obsession throughout our culture and even throughout the world.
- They appear to have reached pandemic status within urban areas and a cull is long overdue.
- So why have British health authorities decided to launch a pandemic flu panic in Britain?
- Even if nations vaccinate their entire populations, they will not remain immune to the pandemic shock.
- This argues for the need to look at other ways to respond to a new flu strain which has pandemic potential.
- It is a remarkable achievement which increases Britain's ability to cope with pandemic flu, should it happen.
- But pandemic influenza, appearing every few decades, has much more devastating consequences.
- It depends on what percentage of the population gets a pandemic flu strain.
- Companies should prepare for a pandemic flu the way they would for a blizzard.
- The Department of Health will also announce its revised pandemic flu contingency plan this week.
- The effectiveness of antivirals in the treatment of pandemic influenza is unclear.
- Most topical is the risk of pandemic influenza, which seems to be the highest in three decades.
- It is not our principles that have spawned pandemic hatred of America in the Islamic world.
- Mr Abbott today announced that the government would speed up funding for research into pandemic influenza.
- The idea that this flu could reach pandemic proportions is a chilling thought.
- History has shown that pandemic strains of influenza viruses emerge as reassortants of human and avian viruses.
- Sars has revealed much about the way a pandemic illness can affect modern society - with massive consequences.
- Imagine if you will you were a government which was aware of a global pandemic flu in the offing.
Synonyms
widespread, prevalent, pervasive, rife, rampant, epidemic

nounpænˈdɛmɪkpanˈdemik

An outbreak of a pandemic disease.
大流行病
the results may have been skewed by an influenza pandemic
Example sentencesExamples
- Don't expect to be able to buy most of these things when the pandemic starts.
- Last year, following a simulated exercise, the Ministry of Health developed a national pandemic plan.
- Influenza epidemics and pandemics spread rapidly causing a high degree of morbidity and mortality.
- It is to be hoped that they are available before the next pandemic strikes.
- It will say that if a widely anticipated European flu pandemic hits, unhygienic doctors will contribute to the spread of the virus.
- Women also face severe constraints because of outbreak of pandemics like HIV / AIDS and other diseases.
- Humans have lived with influenza viruses for centuries and we thought we knew all about their inter-host transmissions, antigenic shift, drift, epidemics, pandemics and vaccines.
- In the case of the avian flu pandemic threat, millions of lives are potentially at stake.
- Scotland will be hit by a deadly strain of the bird flu virus within three weeks of a pandemic starting in Asia, Scotland's top doctor has warned.
- Influenza pandemics are global outbreaks that emerge infrequently and unpredictably and involve strains of virus to which humans have little or no immunity.
- Two highly contagious enteroviruses are known to cause epidemics and pandemics of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis.
- Let's hope that this virus does not mutate and create a worldwide pandemic this winter.
- The European settling of the Americas brought disease pandemics to the Native Americans that nearly eliminated them as an ethnic classification.
- This poses the threat as external to France, in the same way that immigration, organised crime, disease pandemics and global warming are all feared as terrible external threats.
- Influenza viruses cause frequent epidemics and periodic pandemics throughout the world due to antigenic variations.
- In countries afflicted by epidemics and pandemics like HIV / AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, growth and development will be threatened until these scourges can be contained.
- There is, however, going to be another influenza pandemic some time soon.
- Is the Canadian plan to deal with the bird flu pandemic similar to that outlined by the president today?
- Since the start of the pandemic two decades ago, 17 million Africans have died of it.
- It is a small effort worth making if we want to avoid a descent into widespread anarchy, terrorism, pandemics of global disease, and other avoidable calamities.
Synonyms
disease, sickness

Usage

On the difference between pandemic, endemic, and epidemic, see epidemic

Origin

Mid 17th century: from Greek pandēmos (from pan ‘all’ + dēmos ‘people’) + -ic.

词汇	pandemic
释义	Definition of pandemic in English: pandemic adjective panˈdɛmɪkpænˈdɛmɪk (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world. （疾病）在全国（或世界）流行的；泛流行的 Example sentencesExamples Film has become a pandemic obsession throughout our culture and even throughout the world. They appear to have reached pandemic status within urban areas and a cull is long overdue. Most topical is the risk of pandemic influenza, which seems to be the highest in three decades. The factors involved in the genesis of each pandemic virus are probably different. But pandemic influenza, appearing every few decades, has much more devastating consequences. This argues for the need to look at other ways to respond to a new flu strain which has pandemic potential. Imagine if you will you were a government which was aware of a global pandemic flu in the offing. It is a remarkable achievement which increases Britain's ability to cope with pandemic flu, should it happen. History has shown that pandemic strains of influenza viruses emerge as reassortants of human and avian viruses. Mr Abbott today announced that the government would speed up funding for research into pandemic influenza. Sars has revealed much about the way a pandemic illness can affect modern society - with massive consequences. It is not our principles that have spawned pandemic hatred of America in the Islamic world. The arrival of a pandemic influenza would trigger a reaction that would change the world overnight. The idea that this flu could reach pandemic proportions is a chilling thought. So why have British health authorities decided to launch a pandemic flu panic in Britain? The effectiveness of antivirals in the treatment of pandemic influenza is unclear. The Department of Health will also announce its revised pandemic flu contingency plan this week. Companies should prepare for a pandemic flu the way they would for a blizzard. It depends on what percentage of the population gets a pandemic flu strain. Even if nations vaccinate their entire populations, they will not remain immune to the pandemic shock. Synonyms widespread, prevalent, pervasive, rife, rampant, epidemic universal, global noun panˈdɛmɪkpænˈdɛmɪk An outbreak of a pandemic disease. 大流行病 the results may have been skewed by an influenza pandemic Example sentencesExamples There is, however, going to be another influenza pandemic some time soon. It will say that if a widely anticipated European flu pandemic hits, unhygienic doctors will contribute to the spread of the virus. In countries afflicted by epidemics and pandemics like HIV / AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, growth and development will be threatened until these scourges can be contained. Since the start of the pandemic two decades ago, 17 million Africans have died of it. Let's hope that this virus does not mutate and create a worldwide pandemic this winter. Women also face severe constraints because of outbreak of pandemics like HIV / AIDS and other diseases. Scotland will be hit by a deadly strain of the bird flu virus within three weeks of a pandemic starting in Asia, Scotland's top doctor has warned. In the case of the avian flu pandemic threat, millions of lives are potentially at stake. Is the Canadian plan to deal with the bird flu pandemic similar to that outlined by the president today? It is a small effort worth making if we want to avoid a descent into widespread anarchy, terrorism, pandemics of global disease, and other avoidable calamities. The European settling of the Americas brought disease pandemics to the Native Americans that nearly eliminated them as an ethnic classification. Don't expect to be able to buy most of these things when the pandemic starts. Last year, following a simulated exercise, the Ministry of Health developed a national pandemic plan. Influenza viruses cause frequent epidemics and periodic pandemics throughout the world due to antigenic variations. It is to be hoped that they are available before the next pandemic strikes. Influenza epidemics and pandemics spread rapidly causing a high degree of morbidity and mortality. Influenza pandemics are global outbreaks that emerge infrequently and unpredictably and involve strains of virus to which humans have little or no immunity. Two highly contagious enteroviruses are known to cause epidemics and pandemics of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis. Humans have lived with influenza viruses for centuries and we thought we knew all about their inter-host transmissions, antigenic shift, drift, epidemics, pandemics and vaccines. This poses the threat as external to France, in the same way that immigration, organised crime, disease pandemics and global warming are all feared as terrible external threats. Synonyms disease, sickness Origin Mid 17th century: from Greek pandēmos (from pan 'all' + dēmos 'people') + -ic. Rhymes academic, alchemic, endemic, epidemic, polemic, totemic Definition of pandemic in US English: pandemic adjectivepænˈdɛmɪkpanˈdemik (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world. （疾病）在全国（或世界）流行的；泛流行的 Example sentencesExamples The arrival of a pandemic influenza would trigger a reaction that would change the world overnight. The factors involved in the genesis of each pandemic virus are probably different. Film has become a pandemic obsession throughout our culture and even throughout the world. They appear to have reached pandemic status within urban areas and a cull is long overdue. So why have British health authorities decided to launch a pandemic flu panic in Britain? Even if nations vaccinate their entire populations, they will not remain immune to the pandemic shock. This argues for the need to look at other ways to respond to a new flu strain which has pandemic potential. It is a remarkable achievement which increases Britain's ability to cope with pandemic flu, should it happen. But pandemic influenza, appearing every few decades, has much more devastating consequences. It depends on what percentage of the population gets a pandemic flu strain. Companies should prepare for a pandemic flu the way they would for a blizzard. The Department of Health will also announce its revised pandemic flu contingency plan this week. The effectiveness of antivirals in the treatment of pandemic influenza is unclear. Most topical is the risk of pandemic influenza, which seems to be the highest in three decades. It is not our principles that have spawned pandemic hatred of America in the Islamic world. Mr Abbott today announced that the government would speed up funding for research into pandemic influenza. The idea that this flu could reach pandemic proportions is a chilling thought. History has shown that pandemic strains of influenza viruses emerge as reassortants of human and avian viruses. Sars has revealed much about the way a pandemic illness can affect modern society - with massive consequences. Imagine if you will you were a government which was aware of a global pandemic flu in the offing. Synonyms widespread, prevalent, pervasive, rife, rampant, epidemic nounpænˈdɛmɪkpanˈdemik An outbreak of a pandemic disease. 大流行病 the results may have been skewed by an influenza pandemic Example sentencesExamples Don't expect to be able to buy most of these things when the pandemic starts. Last year, following a simulated exercise, the Ministry of Health developed a national pandemic plan. Influenza epidemics and pandemics spread rapidly causing a high degree of morbidity and mortality. It is to be hoped that they are available before the next pandemic strikes. It will say that if a widely anticipated European flu pandemic hits, unhygienic doctors will contribute to the spread of the virus. Women also face severe constraints because of outbreak of pandemics like HIV / AIDS and other diseases. Humans have lived with influenza viruses for centuries and we thought we knew all about their inter-host transmissions, antigenic shift, drift, epidemics, pandemics and vaccines. In the case of the avian flu pandemic threat, millions of lives are potentially at stake. Scotland will be hit by a deadly strain of the bird flu virus within three weeks of a pandemic starting in Asia, Scotland's top doctor has warned. Influenza pandemics are global outbreaks that emerge infrequently and unpredictably and involve strains of virus to which humans have little or no immunity. Two highly contagious enteroviruses are known to cause epidemics and pandemics of acute haemorrhagic conjunctivitis. Let's hope that this virus does not mutate and create a worldwide pandemic this winter. The European settling of the Americas brought disease pandemics to the Native Americans that nearly eliminated them as an ethnic classification. This poses the threat as external to France, in the same way that immigration, organised crime, disease pandemics and global warming are all feared as terrible external threats. Influenza viruses cause frequent epidemics and periodic pandemics throughout the world due to antigenic variations. In countries afflicted by epidemics and pandemics like HIV / AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis, growth and development will be threatened until these scourges can be contained. There is, however, going to be another influenza pandemic some time soon. Is the Canadian plan to deal with the bird flu pandemic similar to that outlined by the president today? Since the start of the pandemic two decades ago, 17 million Africans have died of it. It is a small effort worth making if we want to avoid a descent into widespread anarchy, terrorism, pandemics of global disease, and other avoidable calamities. Synonyms disease, sickness Usage On the difference between pandemic, endemic, and epidemic, see epidemic Origin Mid 17th century: from Greek pandēmos (from pan ‘all’ + dēmos ‘people’) + -ic.
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