0 a small area of the sea or other water in which there is a powerful, circular current of water that can pull objects down into its centre --
1 water that moves in a powerful, circular current, sucking into its center anything that floats near it --
2 an artificial pool with currents of water flowing through it: --
Nonetheless, our investigation shows that the conditions for an outbreak of serious legionellosis were present which underlines the importance of strict maintenance routines and regular controls of whirlpools.
He had used the men's indoor spa bath twice a day for 3 days, but neither a whirlpool spa nor a warm pool during the cruise.
But epidemiological investigation strongly suggests that the whirlpool was the source of the outbreak.
The core of the structural and syntactic matrix is hollow, like the center of a whirlpool.
With our clinically based case definition we found only two cases who had not visited the whirlpool area.
I expected to open the cover and be drawn into a whirlpool of complicated statistical equations and methodologies.
The transitional cohort of older people has been caught up in and marginalised by the whirlpool of political, economic, social and migrationrelated changes since 1990.
Visiting the whirlpool area, taking a shower or using the whirlpool or the sauna were the activities most associated with a high risk for infection.
