diphtheria

Etymology
From (later for a while also spelled diphthérie) in 1857, which was coined in 1855 with the suffix -ie to replace -ite in the previous term  for the disease because it affects more than one part of the body. The previous term (later for a while also spelled diphthérite) was coined in 1817 by  using  in reference to the tough membrane that forms in the throat. Bretonneau perhaps coined and used the Latin term (with its close imitation of Greek spelling typical of Neolatin) even earlier than the French term, which follows the French habit of sometimes spelling t for the Latin transliteration th of Greek θ (but not, for example, in thermomètre).

Noun

 * 1)  A serious infectious disease leading to inflammation of mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, caused by.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: witseerkeel
 * Arabic: خُنَاق
 * Armenian: դիֆթերիա
 * Azerbaijani: difteriya, qaraboğma
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: dipterya
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: záškrt
 * Danish: difteri, difteritis
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: difterio
 * Estonian: difteeria
 * Faroese: difteritis
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: difteria, garrotillo
 * Georgian: დიფთერია
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: ઘટસર્પ
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: barnaveiki
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: diftéire
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ジフテリア
 * Kazakh: дифтерия
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: 디프테리아
 * Latvian: difterija
 * Lithuanian: difterija
 * Macedonian: дифте́рија
 * Malay: difteria
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, dyfteria ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: záškrt
 * Slovene:, difterija
 * Spanish: difteria
 * Swahili: dondakoo
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: dipterya
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: