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a mild viral infection involving the nose and respiratory passages (but not the lungs)
will they never find a cure for the common cold?
How To Use common cold In A Sentence
- I was told to go home and drink hot lemon because all I had was the common cold.
- the common cold
- They used the common cold virus to infect cells in the animals' eyes. The Sun
- The fruit, its oils and the kernel were traditionally used to treat severe acid stomach, excess wind, fatigue after menstruation and the common cold.
- What this is this is an illness that's called adenovirus, which is a fancy way of saying the common cold virus. CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2007
- He said that present asthma treatments were good for daily use but could not help when a common cold worked its way down to the lungs. Times, Sunday Times
- Influenza may present as a mild respiratory illness similar to the common cold.
- This herb should not be used by those with wind cold conditions such as the common cold when there is phlegm nor should it be used when there is Spleen deficiency with diarrhea.
- VocalZone, a pastille created to soothe vocal chords and relieve irritations, is available for singers, speakers, smokers and sufferers of the common cold.
- So the common cold you get every year is the result of successful adaptation by those strains which had some survival advantage over the strains that your body was able to combat last year.