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hepatitis B

hepatitis B noun: an acute form of hepatitis, transmitted by blood, sexual contact, and body fluids.

Noun

hepatitis B (uncountable)

  1. An acute form of hepatitis, transmitted by blood, sexual contact, and body fluids.
    • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory panel on Friday rolled back a decadeslong recommendation that all newborns get a first dose of the hepatitis B vaccine within 24 hours of birth.2025 December 5, Aria Bendix and Erika Edwards, “CDC advisory panel rolls back universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation”, in NBC News

hepatitis B meaning in Tamil, Persian and Vietnamese

hepatitis B in Tamil

இரண்டாம்வகைக் கல்லீரலழற்சி

hepatitis B in Persian

acute form of hepatitis
هپاتیت ب hepâtit-e bi or be

hepatitis B in Vietnamese

acute form of hepatitis
viêm gan B

Questions about hepatitis B

What does hepatitis B mean?
Hepatitis B means an acute form of hepatitis, transmitted by blood, sexual contact, and body fluids.
What is hepatitis B in Tamil?
Hepatitis B in Tamil is இரண்டாம்வகைக் கல்லீரலழற்சி. See Hepatitis B meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hepatitis B?
Hepatitis B is a noun.

Words near hepatitis B in the dictionary

  1. hepatitic
  2. hepatitides
  3. hepatitis
  4. hepatitis A
  5. hepatitis A virus
  6. hepatitis B
  7. hepatitis B virus
  8. hepatitis C
  9. hepatitis C virus
  10. hepatitis D
  11. hepatitis D virus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hepatitis B (page history and authors); Hepatitis B (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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