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infectious disease
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun infectious disease has 1 sense
- infectious disease(n = noun.state) Array - a disease transmitted only by a specific kind of contact; Array is a kind of communicable disease
has particulars: acquired immune deficiency syndrome, aids, brucellosis, gibraltar fever, malta fever, mediterranean fever, rock fever, undulant fever, asiatic cholera, cholera, epidemic cholera, indian cholera, breakbone fever, dandy fever, dengue, dengue fever, dysentery, epidemic disease, hepatitis, herpes, glandular fever, infectious mononucleosis, kissing disease, mono, mononucleosis, hansen's disease, leprosy, listeria meningitis, listeriosis, meningitis, epidemic parotitis, mumps, paratyphoid, paratyphoid fever, acute anterior poliomyelitis, infantile paralysis, polio, poliomyelitis, ratbite fever, rickettsial disease, rickettsiosis, recurrent fever, relapsing fever, rheumatic fever, miliary fever, sweating sickness, t.b., tb, tuberculosis, enteric fever, typhoid, typhoid fever, pertussis, whooping cough, frambesia, framboesia, yaws, black vomit, yellow fever, yellow jack
CIDE DICTIONARY
infectious disease,
Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of microorganisms in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
THESAURUS
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
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