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strangling angel of children

English edit

Etymology edit

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.

Noun edit

the strangling angel of children

  1. (poetic) The disease diphtheria.

Usage notes edit

  • Commonly said to be archaic, but first appears in writing around the 21st century.
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