epidemic :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

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"

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)

contagion, contagious disease

n. any disease easily transmitted by contact

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

increase

n. a change resulting in an increase; "the increase is scheduled for next month"

infection

n. the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms

rampant

adj. unrestrained and violent; "rampant aggression"

exuberant, excessive, overweening, extravagant

adj. unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings; "extravagant praise"; "exuberant compliments"; "overweening ambition"; "overweening greed"

scattered, widespread

adj. distributed over a considerable extent; "far-flung trading operations"; "the West's far-flung mountain ranges"; "widespread nuclear fallout"

rife, prevailing, prevalent

adj. encountered generally especially at the present time; "the prevailing opinion was that a trade war could be averted"; "the most prevalent religion in our area"; "speculation concerning the books author was rife"

endemic

adj. of or relating to a disease (or anything resembling a disease) constantly present to greater or lesser extent in a particular locality; "diseases endemic to the tropics"; "endemic malaria"; "food shortages and starvation are endemic in certain parts of the world"

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