About The Word Epidemic
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Epidemic
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What's The Definition Of Epidemic?
[n] a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time
[adj] (especially of medicine) of disease or anything resembling a disease; attacking or affecting many individuals in a community or a population simultaneously; "an epidemic outbreak of influenza" Synonyms | Synonyms for Epidemic: epiphytotic | epizootic | pandemic | pestilent | pestilential | plaguelike | plaguey Related Terms | Find terms related to Epidemic: abounding | abundant | affluent | all-sufficing | ambulatory plague | ample | aplenty | average | besetting | black death | black plague | bottomless | bounteous | bountiful | bubonic plague | catching | cellulocutaneous plague | common | communicable | compact | contagious | copious | current | defervescing plague | diffuse | dominant | effuse | endemic | epidemial | epigrammatic | epiphytotic | epizootic | exhaustless | extravagant | exuberant | fat | fertile | flush | full | galore | general | generous | glandular plague | growth | hemorrhagic plague | in plenty | in quantity | inexhaustible | infectious | infective | inoculable | larval plague | lavish | liberal | luxuriant | many | maximal | meaty | much | murrain | normal | numerous | opulent | ordinary | outbreak | overflowing | pandemia | pandemic | pest | pesthole | pestiferous | pestilence | pestilential | plague | plague spot | plenitudinous | plenteous | plentiful | plenty | pneumonic plague | popular | predominant | predominating | premonitory plague | prevailing | prevalent | prodigal | productive | profuse | profusive | rampant | rash | regnant | reigning | replete | rich | rife | riotous | routine | ruling | running | running over | scourge | septicemic plague | siderating plague | sporadic | spread | spreading | standard | stereotyped | superabundant | taking | teeming | tuberculosis | universal | upsurge | usual | wealthy | well-found | well-furnished | well-provided | well-stocked | white plague | wholesale | wide-ranging | widespread | zymotic See Also | eruption | outbreak | pandemic Epidemic In Webster's Dictionary \Ep`i*dem"ic\, Epidemical \Ep`i*dem"ic*al\, a. [L.
epidemus, Gr. ?, ?, among the people, epidemic; ? in + ?
people: cf. F. ['e]pid['e]mique. Cf. {Demagogue}.]
1. (Med.) Common to, or affecting at the same time, a large
number in a community; -- applied to a disease which,
spreading widely, attacks many persons at the same time;
as, an epidemic disease; an epidemic catarrh, fever, etc.
See {Endemic}.
2. Spreading widely, or generally prevailing; affecting great
numbers, as an epidemic does; as, epidemic rage; an
epidemic evil.
It was the epidemical sin of the nation. --Bp.
Burnet.
\Ep`i*dem"ic\, n. [Cf. {Epidemy}.] 1. (Med.) An epidemic disease. 2. Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror. |
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