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Contagious disease   /kəntˈeɪdʒəs dɪzˈiz/   Listen
Contagious disease

noun
1.
Any disease easily transmitted by contact.  Synonym: contagion.





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"Contagious disease" Quotes from Famous Books



... contagious disease met with in tropical countries, characterized by the appearance of variously-sized papules, tubercles, and tumors, which, when developed, resemble currants and small raspberries, and finally break down and ulcerate. It is accompanied by constitutional ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon
... looked upon as a contagious disease that must be checked at all costs. It did not matter that the heretic usually led a conspicuously blameless life, that he was arduous, did not swear, was emaciated with fasting and refused to participate in the vain recreations ...
— The Mind in the Making - The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform • James Harvey Robinson


Words linked to "Contagious disease" :   Vincent's infection, social disease, morbilli, communicable disease, venereal infection, Cupid's itch, flu, scarlet fever, trench mouth, venereal disease, pox, Vincent's angina, rubeola, diphtheria, scarlatina, VD, Cupid's disease, dose, sexually transmitted disease, influenza, measles, grippe, Venus's curse, STD


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