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Nouns (3)

contagious disease

n. any disease easily transmitted by contact

transmission, infection

n. an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

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disease

n. an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

complaint, ailment, ill

n. an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining

frailty, feebleness, infirmity, debility, frailness

n. the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age)

epidemic

n. a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease; many people are infected at the same time

plague, pestilence

n. a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal

bacteria, bacterium

n. (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered plants

virus

n. (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein

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contagion

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