Meaning

1 senses
  1. (poetic)The disease diphtheria.

Origin

From being a childhood disease that causes suffocation of children when it creates biofilm

From being a childhood disease that causes suffocation of children when it creates biofilms in the lungs that prevent air from being exchanged with the blood.

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