Infectious disease Definition & Meaning

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Infectious disease

Infectious disease Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Infectious disease? [n] a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact Synonyms \| Synonyms for Infectious disease: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Infectious disease: abnormality \| acute disease \| affection \| affliction \| ailment \| allergic disease \| allergy \| atrophy \| bacterial disease \| birth defect \| blight \| cardiovascular disease \| chronic disease \| circulatory disease \| complaint \| complication \| condition \| congenital defect \| defect \| deficiency disease \| deformity \| degenerative disease \| disability \| disease \| disorder \| distemper \| endemic \| endemic disease \| endocrine disease \| epidemic disease \| functional disease \| fungus disease \| gastrointestinal disease \| genetic disease \| handicap \| hereditary disease \| iatrogenic disease \| illness \| indisposition \| infirmity \| malady \| malaise \| morbidity \| morbus \| muscular disease \| neurological disease \| nutritional disease \| occupational disease \| organic disease \| pandemic disease \| pathological condition \| pathology \| plant disease \| protozoan disease \| psychosomatic disease \| respiratory disease \| rockiness \| secondary disease \| seediness \| sickishness \| sickness \| signs \| symptomatology \| symptomology \| symptoms \| syndrome \| the pip \| urogenital disease \| virus disease \| wasting disease \| worm disease See Also \| acquired immune deficiency syndrome \| acute anterior poliomyelitis \| AIDS \| Asiatic cholera \| black vomit \| breakbone fever \| brucellosis \| cholera \| communicable disease \| dandy fever \| dengue \| dengue fever \| dysentery \| enteric fever \| epidemic cholera \| epidemic disease \| epidemic parotitis \| frambesia \| framboesia \| Gibraltar fever \| glandular fever \| Hansen's disease \| hepatitis \| herpes \| Indian cholera \| infantile paralysis \| infectious mononucleosis \| kissing disease \| Lassa fever \| leprosy \| LGV \| listeriosis \| lymphogranuloma venereum \| lymphopathia venereum \| Malta fever \| Mediterranean fever \| meningitis \| miliary fever \| mono \| mononucleosis \| mumps \| paratyphoid \| paratyphoid fever \| pertussis \| polio \| poliomyelitis \| ratbite fever \| recurrent fever \| relapsing fever \| rheumatic fever \| rickettsial disease \| rickettsiosis \| Rock fever \| sweating sickness \| T.B. \| TB \| tuberculosis \| typhoid \| typhoid fever \| undulant fever \| whooping cough \| yaws \| yellow fever \| yellow jack Infectious disease In Webster's Dictionary \Infec"tious disease"\ (a) Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. (b) Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in the air or water, and thus spread without contact with the patient, as measles.

Infectious disease Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Infectious disease?

[n] a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact

Synonyms | Synonyms for Infectious disease:

Infectious disease In Webster's Dictionary

\In*fec"tious dis*ease"\
(a) Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and
    multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a
    germ disease. It may not be contagious.
(b) Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such
    a disease communicated by germs carried in the air or
    water, and thus spread without contact with the patient,
    as measles.

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