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diphtheria

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diphtheria
An acute infectious disease caused by the diphtheria bacterium, typically marked by inflammation of the throat and the formation of a greyish-white membrane. It most commonly affects children during autumn and winter.

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Movie subtitles
0.420 per million appears in 0% of films
Written text
0.404 per million

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Frequency data
SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)