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Contagious disease
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What's The Definition Of Contagious disease?
[n] any disease easily transmitted by contact
Synonyms | Synonyms for Contagious disease: contagion Related Terms | Find terms related to Contagious disease: See Also | communicable disease | Cupid's disease | Cupid's itch | diphtheria | flu | grippe | influenza | measles | morbilli | pox | rubeola | scarlatina | scarlet fever | sexually transmitted disease | social disease | trench mouth | VD | venereal disease | Venus's curse | Vincent's angina | Vincent's infection Contagious disease In Webster's Dictionary \Con*ta"gious dis*ease"\ (Med.)
A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering
from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by,
such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved
to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on the
transmission of the living germs. Many germ diseases are not
contagious, some special method of transmission or
inoculation of the germs being required.
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