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noun
An illness caused by a specific infectious agent (bacterium, virus, fungus, protozoa, prion etc.), that results from transmission of that agent from an infected person, animal, or reservoir to a susceptible host.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: infection
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A medical specialty dealing with the diagnosis, control and treatment of infections.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
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Synonyms: ID, infectious diseases, infectiology, infectology
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: communicable disease
Narrower terms: AIDS, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, brucellosis, undulant fever, Malta fever, Gibraltar fever, Rock fever, Mediterranean fever, cholera, Asiatic cholera, Indian cholera, epidemic cholera, dengue, dengue fever, dandy fever, breakbone fever, dysentery, epidemic disease, hepatitis, herpes, infectious mononucleosis, mononucleosis, mono, glandular fever, kissing disease, leprosy, Hansen's disease, listeriosis, listeria meningitis, meningitis, mumps, epidemic parotitis, paratyphoid, paratyphoid fever, poliomyelitis, polio, infantile paralysis, acute anterior poliomyelitis, ratbite fever, rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis, relapsing fever, recurrent fever, rheumatic fever, sweating sickness, miliary fever, tuberculosis, TB, T.B., typhoid, typhoid fever, enteric fever, whooping cough, pertussis, yaws, frambesia, framboesia, yellow jack, yellow fever, black vomit
History
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Across languages
32 source translations are retained for this English entry.
