English Explanatory Dictionary

strangling angel of children

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The disease diphtheria.

Word forms

strangling angel of children the strangling angel of children

Etymology

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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