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English
Etymology
So called because it may be transmitted through kissing.
Noun
the kissing disease (uncountable)
- (colloquial) Mononucleosis.
1961 February, “What in the world is Mononucleosis?”, in Kiplinger Magazine, retrieved 19 October 2010, page 30:It was in a college, West Point, that infectious mononucleosis won a romantic reputation. . . . Investigators at a girls' school also found post-vacation peaks, and mono became known as the "kissing disease".
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